As members of the Christian community, we endeavor collectively to bring the
love of Christ and
authentic Christian freedom and justice to all» especially the weak and helpless who, too often, are
denied the respect due all who are created in God's image.
If the Christian continues to believe in the gracious and providential
love of God after Auschwitz, then not only is he once more
denying the humanity of the Jew, but he is also inevitably
denying the pain of all humanity, refusing the
authentic or ultimate reality of a pain that can not be relieved or assuaged by a dehistorized or dehumanized God.