Herod's massacre continues

What has ignited Herod's mad massacre of babies? One word, FEAR.
When Herod learned from the wise men, his chief priests and the scribes that an "infant king" was born, Herod was perturbed, and, interestingly enough as Matthew's Gospel continues, so was the whole Jerusalem.
Paradoxically, Herod was afraid of a baby.
Who is afraid of babies? Babies are one of the most helpless and unthreatening of creatures!
Herod was afraid of what This Baby represented: CHANGE. Jerusalem was perturbed because with a "change of kingship" their whole way of life is in peril.
And so the "massacre" continues to this day in many ways: unborn babies, displaced peoples, child soldiers, the elderly and the handicapped, "excess" labor force, trafficked people especially women, children. In short, all those who are a threat to a stable, easy and comfortable life.
But the massacre also happens when in subtle ways we "kill" people who, we think, are a "threat" to us, who force us to rethink our values and choices, who remind us that we are not the "center" of the world.
It is easy to judge Herod and other people, but before we point fingers at them, let us look at ourselves because we have blood in our hands, too. Because everytime I forget that I am responsible for others, be they near or far; that I am not the center of the world; that, regardless of race or creed, we are brothers and sisters of the same human family, I, too, am complicit in the massacre of innocents.