Article IX, Holocaust and a difficult foreboding

Ugh ... this is going to be a very difficult weekend. Tomorrow is a rally for equal rights for same-sex couples, a monastery (my favorite monastery) has been destroyed, people are very sick, and I just watched a movie that made me cry a lot (no ... not that femmy emotional romance movie cry). I saw Boy in the Striped Pajamas today. It's a very difficult film ... a German boy meets a Jewish concentration camp prisoner who is the same age through the barb-wire fence. I won't spoil the plot, but it makes me wonder how humanity could be so vile, and could so dehumanize another group of people. Well, I had my 1662 Prayer Book along so I peeked at it at dinner. Article IX of the Articles of Religion provided some clarity:

"ORIGINAL sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk), but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam, whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit;"

I won't go any further, because I'm still processing the film at the moment. But suffice it to say, many difficulties have come to the fore this weekend. I'm just hoping that God will be so graceful as to help me through.