By: Cynthia Blank, Israel National News—
Nearly one-third of American adults, if alive during the Holocaust, would refuse to shelter a Jew from the Nazis, a recent poll found.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the poll was conducted as part of a unique marketing ploy to promote the digital release of Return to the Hiding Place which tells the story of a group of Christians who hid Jews during World War II.
Peter Spencer, who directed and co-produced the film, got the idea for the poll after one of its stars, John Rhys-Davies, asked interviewers during a promotional appearance if they would have risked their lives to shelter Jews.
“It’s a moral dilemma that we’ve never had to face, but you know those kids did, and their families did, and a lot of them lost their lives because of it,” Rhys-Davies told the co-hosts of the Hallmark’s Channel Home & Family program.
Barna Research conducted the poll, asking 1,000 Americans to “think back to World War II when Jews in Europe were forced into concentration camps and many were killed by the Nazis.”
Respondents were then asked: “If you were living in this time period, would you have risked the possible imprisonment and death of yourself and your family to hide Jews?”
Sixty-nine percent said they would agree to risk their lives to hide Jews, while 31 percent said they would not.
According to an analysis of the data, males were more likely than females to shelter Jews, as were married people and homosexuals over singles and heterosexuals, respectively.
In addition, religious people were more likely to answer yes than secular people, as were Southerners over those from the Northeast.
This poll was both surprising and sad,
I was eight when WW2 started. I accepted Christ as savior at age 10. As reports reached us about the Jewish holicost I asked my parents what they had done. I was told, “They’ve done nothing deserving death. They are dying for being Jews.” That made me really sad. I’ve never gotten over that sadness. Would I protect them? Yes, not in my strength, but by God’s grace. Oh, that I will always be ready! gg
“Do unto others as they would do unto you”. Isn’t that actually how most people want to be treated? But this poll shows that not to be the case. It struck me as I read the article that Satan took a third of the heavenly realm with him when he was kicked out of heaven. And today he’s having a good go at taking many more with him to the pit of hell. Please people wake up – even if you don’t believe in an Almighty, Eternal, Loving God, then believe in Satan, the ultimate evil one – there’s plenty of evidence in our world today to convince any court of law. But Satan’s greatest victory has been to convince by lies, half truths, and flattery ( by that I mean he appeals to our ego and pride, that WE ourselves are the ultimate sources of truth and not Almighty God, personified in Jesus Christ )
I totally agree with G. Garner ” would I protect them? Yes but not in my strength, but in the strength that lives in me, Jesus’ Holy Spirit. Oh that I would always be ready to serve my Lord and my King forever.
And Jesus says, ” yes, now that’s a man/woman after my own heart”.
And those are just the people He is looking for today.
Be one of those people today and then I can meet you in heaven, or if God wills before!!