And if you need a reminder, Matthew 7:15-16:

Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them.

If your church is attempting to spin this as an attack on the church (when it is in fact an attack by an even more far-right, more ‘Christian’ group), then you are at the wrong church.

And worse of all is that I—a 32-year-old married man—am so furious about it.

After the war, he wrote his poem. He wrote it to help future people from repeating his mistakes. Unfortunately, it seems, it fell on deaf ears. Hopefully my rewriting can help to spark the conversation, once more.

For those unfamiliar, Niemoller was initially a supporter of mustache man, thinking he would defend his rights as a Christian. However, by the time he rose up to speak against him, it was too late—there was nobody there to speak up for him. He was then taken to a camp himself.

Language has been co-opted in the exact way Orwell warned us against, but so many refuse to see it.