It’s November 1938, and the Nazis have confiscated a silk factory owned by the same Jewish family for over a decade, arresting the owner.

Fast forward to 2014, and a state official has compared a Colorado Christian baker to the same group that took away what belonged to the Jewish silk factory owner—the father of my grandmother’s cousin, Godofredo.

This in a country founded by people who fled religious persecution.

While America, the country that mostly turned away Jews fleeing Adolf Hitler, is thankfully not on a course to repeat the Holocaust’s atrocities, some of its citizens have taken to comparing matters of individual freedom—such as a baker refusing to make a same-sex wedding cake—to the actions that led to the deaths of 11 million people, including 6 million Jews and 1.5 million children.

Colorado Civil Rights Commissioner Diann Rice said, “Freedom of religion and religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the Holocaust.”

Especially as the grandson of Holocaust survivors, my message for Rice and for those who make religious liberty comparisons to the Shoah is simple: Stop it.

The late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, who survived the Holocaust, warned against comparisons like this. He said:

Only Auschwitz was Auschwitz. I went to Yugoslavia when reporters said that there was a Holocaust starting there. There was genocide, but not an Auschwitz. When you make a comparison to the Holocaust it works both ways, and soon people will say what happened in Auschwitz was “only what happened in Bosnia.”

Apply that logic to the case of Colorado baker Jack Phillips: Only Auschwitz was Auschwitz.

I went to Colorado where a baker refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. I personally think it’s a shame, but it’s a private business refusing to bake a cake for a purpose of which the owner doesn’t agree.

It was a denial, not an Auschwitz. When we make a comparison to the Holocaust, it works both ways, and soon people will say what happened in Auschwitz was “only what happened in a bakery.”

To cheapen the Holocaust by making such comparisons is to convolute and deny its atrocities.

The Holocaust, which only started with the discriminatory Nuremberg Laws only to end up in genocide, didn’t happen so much because of a hatred of a religion, but rather an explicit hatred for a people. This hatred extended to people who helped those the Nazis targeted, like the family who hid my only living grandmother when she was a child in France.

In fact, once Hitler took power, he sought to reduce Christianity’s influence on German society.

Rice’s comment was nothing but perverted and bigoted. I dare her to tell my living grandmother that what the Colorado baker did compares to the atrocities at Dachau, of which her late husband survived (his father perished there), and about which Phillips’ father wrote notes regarding the atrocities there and other places like Buchenwald, which he helped liberate.

Hypocritically, those on the left, like Rice, cite the plight of Jewish refugees during World War II as a reason for why the U.S. should take in refugees from war-torn places like Syria. Apparently they failed to learn about the Holocaust, which consisted of Jewish bakeries and other businesses being looted on Kristallnacht, or “Night of the Broken Glass,” let alone being sent to concentration camps.

(Important side note: Where is the outrage from the left over the atrocities in Rohingya, Darfur, Tibet, in Iraq against the Yazidis, and other persecuted groups in the Middle East? Those conflicts are severe compared to a bakery refusing to bake a same-sex wedding cake.)

Intolerance was part of the Holocaust. Blatant discrimination was part of the Holocaust. Concentration camps and gas chambers were part of the Holocaust. Death marches were part of the Holocaust. Indifference was part of the Holocaust.

Bakers refusing to bake same-sex wedding cakes were not part of the Holocaust. Rice seems indifferent to the magnitude of the Holocaust’s barbaric and sadistic acts, and instead chose to relate them to a baker who simply followed his conscience in declining to make a same-sex wedding cake.

Would Rice equate Phillips refusing to make a “divorce” cake to the Holocaust? Would Rice compare Phillips refusing to make Halloween-themed cakes to that of the Holocaust?

The famous psychologist Rollo May said, “The opposite of courage in our society isn’t cowardice. It’s conformity.”

It’s astonishing that America, which eventually admitted my surviving grandparents, is in 2017 a place where some are trying to coerce others to conform to an ideology, even if it conflicts with their personal beliefs.

In Nazi Germany, if you weren’t an Aryan as Hitler prescribed in “Mein Kampf,” you would perish. Is it somehow acceptable to compare this baker or anyone coerced by those with differing ideologies to the Nazis?

If we’re going to say “Never again,” let’s also say “No more.” No more false equivalences. No more hate. Conversing, not ostracizing, is the solution to bridge divisions between people.

Let’s judge people personally—not by their background, but rather by their character.

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By now you have probably seen or heard about this shameful attack by Sen. Diane Feinstein of Amy Coney Barrett, the Notre Dame Law school professor nominated by President Trump to the federal bench. So outrageous was the verbal assault that even heterodox modernist Catholics like Notre Dame’s President Fr. John Jenkins went after Feinstein as did the failing and pro-gay Cdl. Timothy Dolan of New York. But what went largely unreported was the fact that sitting on that side of the judiciary committee bench were two Catholics, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Pat Leahy of Vermont, two fake Catholic pro-abortion senators.

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By now you have probably seen or heard about this shameful attack by Sen. Diane Feinstein of Amy Coney Barrett, the Notre Dame Law school professor nominated by President Trump to the federal bench. So outrageous was the verbal assault that even heterodox modernist Catholics like Notre Dame’s President Fr. John Jenkins went after Feinstein as did the failing and pro-gay Cdl. Timothy Dolan of New York. But what went largely unreported was the fact that sitting on that side of the judiciary committee bench were two Catholics, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Pat Leahy of Vermont, two fake Catholic pro-abortion senators.

Notably, it was Durbin, a Catholic who rejects the Catholic Church, who took exception to Barrett’s use of the term “orthodox Catholic.” He said the phrase unfairly maligns Catholics who believe child murder is acceptable and sodomy should be enshrined as a right from which marriage should be defined. For the record, it does not unfairly malign but rather accurately portrays them. They are not “orthodox Catholics” at all. They have abandoned their faith for political glory. Both Leahy and Durbin were at one time pro-life but to hold on to their political power, they switched and started voting for child killing.

Amy Coney Barrett is absolutely correct to make the distinction between orthodox Catholics and phony Catholics. It is the class of phony Catholics that have almost all the ecclesiastical and secular power among Catholics who have any such standing. But where did these Judases come from? Well, that’s pretty simple. They are shining examples, exemplary examples of Church of Nice Catholicism, that pick and choose cafeteria Catholicism so heavily promoted today from within the Church.

Every day on the secular stage, we get a look at these traitors, which reveals the system whereby they easily converted to their phony Catholicism. Washington D.C. is crawling with these apostates — Joe Biden, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Patrick Leahy and the whole Kennedy Clan before they went before the judgment seat of Almighty God drenched in the blood of innocents.

But they are by no means confined to D.C. — California Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown who was in Jesuit seminary in his young adulthood. Jesuits, hmmm, go figure. And of course former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is also a Catholic — both men betraying the precepts of their faith while in office in more ways than one. The list of traitorous Catholics never denounced or called out or even challenged by the Church Establishment is too long and painful to review, and it’s been that way for decades. Imagine that headline: “Cardinal Terminates Terminator for Terminating Pre-born.” Don’t hold your breath.

Here’s the problem in a nutshell, restating what Pope Benedict told German seminarians, there are too many malformed bishops and orthodox Catholics are just going to have to live through this because what other option is there? But living through this doesn’t mean ignoring and being disengaged. In fact, it means just the opposite, exactly the opposite. It means being even more engaged. It means being dedicated to studying, learning, reviewing the Faith continually. We are in a pitched battle for the Truth, and the sad reality is we have very few allies even in the Church, especially in the Church.

As we’ve covered earlier this week, more than four out of five U.S. Catholics do not believe in the Devil and close to half of European Catholics don’t see any real difference between Catholicism and Protestantism. These horrible realities are the reason we started St. Michael’s Media and Church Militant, and even we didn’t realize how bad it was when we started 12 years ago but we have come to realize, and now we are dedicated to calling out the error, and at the same time pointing to the Truth.

That’s why we are asking you, highly encouraging you to sign up for a Premium subscription to Church Militant. We have hundreds and hundreds of hours of straight-up Catholic programming, ranging from classes to shows to investigations to just about everything you can think of — all to help you fall in love with the Catholic faith. And for those who sign up, just this week, for a recurring monthly subscription, which is just $10 a month, you will receive a complimentary copy of The Vortex published just this spring.

We must rededicate ourselves to knowing and studying the Faith so that we can resist the continuing loss of Catholic identity with all our might. Part of that involves setting aside time to study the Faith — to be enraptured by its glories and mysteries and blinding truth.

Dianne Feinstein would have never said what she said had she been surrounded by orthodox Catholics. But with traitorous Catholics, a by-product of the Church of Nice, she had all the permission and confidence she needed. Far from being surrounded by any orthodox Catholics, she was seated next to a Judas Catholic who actually joined her in attacking and calling out an orthodox Catholic. His conscience no doubt searing inside him.

We have fallen so far, so fast, that the task ahead of us is almost beyond words. It is daunting, true, but that cannot dissuade us from the work. We have to simply knuckle down and get to work every day, in every little way and that includes committing ourselves to knowing the Faith.

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EDITORS NOTE: This episode of The Vortex with Micheal Voris originally appeared on The Church Militant.