If there's a God - why the Holocaust?
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This is one of the greatest theological questions of our time, especially for Jews.  \nMany people say that you can't blame G-d for the evil that men do.  \nSome say that the Holocaust was so evil that trying to find reason in it is just too much and we shouldn't try.\nI can't answer your question, but if you're actually interested in a variety of answers I strongly recommend that instead of yahoo answers you read the following book:\n Good and Evil After Auschwitz: Ethical Implications for Today, edited by Jack Bemporad, John T Pawlikowski, Joseph Sievers\nWhen bad things happen to good people by Harold Kushner is a down-to-earth book that tackles a difficult question.\nYou should also read Rav Soloveitchik (Joseph Dov Soloveitchik) and Eliezer Berkovits, as well as the Lubavitche Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.\nI just googled this and got the following:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_theology\ntry that, too/
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I've never heard anyone blame God for anything.\n\nI think the general rule of thumb is that we (the opposition) generally wonder why, if God is all-loving, AND all-powerful, AND all-merciful, AND all-compassionate,etc... does he not step in to STOP (or at least intervene in) the 'destruction and unexplained deaths'. \n\nThere is no answer for that. The whole claim is perposterous!\nI think if anything good did happen - we would jump up and down looking for the 'God' behind it. But so far.... the well has been found to be dry and wanting.
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Reminds me of that bit in Catch 22.\n\nAnyway, I don't believe in a God of History; one whose supposed exploits are charted in writings from the past. There is no way I can face a divinity who sits from the distant yesterday and claims that enough has been done, or who has dangled false hopes over our future. Life is not that simple. The God that I would believe in would exist in the here and now, and would be defined through such an existence rather than through the broken remains of our ancestors.
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People who feel that way are responsible for all kinds of atrocities, because your religion devalues life.  There are even people who think a nuclear holocaust would be a good thing, for the same reason.  It's absolutely nuts, and I would urge you to seek professional help before you start killing people.
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You have a lot of questions here, so I'll do my best:  \n\nWhy did God flood the world?\n  The story goes that God was angered at the wickedness of mankind and sent the flood to wipe the slate clean.  Noah and his family were spaerd because of Noah's righteousness.\n\nWhy does he kill everybody?\n  I'm just going to assume that this is part of the flood question, and therefore see above.\n\nWhy did he destroy Soddom and goomorrah(sic)? \n  For much the same reason as the great flood.  These were two cities destroyed for their sins.  What these sins were isn't fully explained, but we can assume they were heinous.\n\nWhy does he kill people in Pakistan and New Orleans?\n  He doesn't.  Natural disasters occur and people die.  That is a tragedy, but it is not God's fault.  God doesn't cause natural disasters, they just happen.  It's a part of life.\n\nWhy does he allow Hitler to kill 6 million people and he goes to heaven because he is Cristian(sic).... And Anne Frank does not because she is Jew?\n  Ok, God gave mankind free will.  Free will is the ability to decide our own paths.  It is our choice to be good or evil, not God's.  If God interfered, it would no longer be free will.  Hitler does not go to heaven.  Merely being Christian is not enough, especially considering that Hitler committed suicide, which prevents you from going to heaven.  I don't believe that there is any doctrine that says Jews cannot go to heaven.\n\nHe is a racist and a homophobe!!! Why do people like God when he is sooooooooo nasty!\n  God isn't racist and homophobic.  Some people who interpret God are, and they spread a message of hate and intolerance.  To many people, however, God is a being of comfort and forgiveness.  Peace and tolerance.  Bear in mind that the Bible was written by men, and men are flawed.  The church is run by men.  We will never be perfect, but we try to do teh best we can.\n\n\nI hope this helps.
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:}\nThe Jews were God's chosen people. That makes Satan unhappy. He has used Christians, Muslims and pagans to bring hardship on them but God will insure their survival\nTheir existence in spite of their rebellion to him is a testimony to the existence of an all powerful loving God
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If you mean the holocaust, its something that Jews made up so they could rule the media.
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I was a history major in college with a focus on the holocaust.  I studied him extensively.  It is widely argued about whether he was a Jew.  Little is known about his real father.  It may be that his father was a Jew or half Jew and was absent, causing resentment of those people.  \nIf you look at history.  Historically,, the Jews have been constantly persecuted..  A couple reasons for this is      1. The Jews killed Christ (actually the Romans did, but the Jews get  blamed).  \n2. Loaning money  for interest or usury.  Christians were not.  Jews are characterized as wealthy and greedy.  Both of these generalizations are founded on their laws which permit usury.\nIf you look at this time in history, the Germans were financially crippled by the reparations they were forced to pay due to WW I.   They were not allowed to rearm at all.  Take a people with a proud military past, a loss of a major war, a country ravaged by war, financially crippled and unable to build, that makes for the perfect set of circumstances to find a scapegoat.\nDue to the allowance of usury by Jewish laws,  many were bankers.  They were fairly affluent.  Hitler chose a group of people that many were wealthy and affluent and already faced a prejudice, to be the one's responsible for Germany's woes.  This helped rocket him into power.
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Mentioning events in history doesn't make you a racist. It's ok to say "Holocaust."\n\nThings happen because either: \n\n1. There is no God and actions in life are completely random.\n2. Fate, destiny, testing faith, etc. exists.\n3. There is a God, but there is no divine plan and actions in life are completely random.\n\nAnd what ever you choose to believe above, bad things happen in life...to everyone.
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They don't want trouble.\n Doubt about Holocaust for Jews is something like Mohammad cartoons for Muslims, they are sensitive about it so it's better to be gentle and accept their limits.\nThe only government involve in holocaust was Germany and they have confessed that they did it and they don't want more problem, so they ban their scientists.
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First, I believe you cease to exist.  Then, if there is a God then he must be a just god.  I raised 4 children.  When they misbehaved they got punished.  But I never burned them nor did I punish them for the rest of their lives.  If the bible is true then I am made in god's image.  Unjust punishment is repulsive to me.  The thought of burning people actually was something the pagans did, casting their children into the fire before their god Mo'lech.  The bible says that was something that never came up into his (God's) heart.  (Jer. 32:35)  If that is true then HELL must be something religious leaders invented to scare their partitioners into following THEIR laws. (i.e. contributions)\n\nThe bible says the wage sin pays is death (Romans 6:23).  Therefore, whoever dies has paid for their sin.  Why would they be punished after suffering death?  Doesn't seem just to me.  What's more astounding is the thought of no parole.  Suffer eternity for what you did in only one lifetime?  I thought God was supposed to be just.\n\nSo, I know (believe) that at death you simply sleep a sleep from which there is no dreaming nor awakening.
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You must first wonder what the hell he was doing for the previous trillion,god zillion years.\nWas he standing in the middle of nothing and being the god of nothing?\nWhat the hell was his reason for being?\nHe couldn't be considered a god at that time.\nWouldn't he have to be god of something?
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Fair question, friend. I probably would NOT want to know. If I knew for certain that there was no God, then life would be utterly meaningless--especially in the area of morality. I would become crazy selfish, which would cause me to attack everyone else (verbally) just so I could survive emotionally until I died. So, in the final analysis, no, I would not want to know.
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Who is go?...Did you mean God?...if you're speaking of "GOD" the answer to your question 1: Yes, God Is Forgiving..the answer to your question 2: When God created man, He gave us a "WILL" to pick & choose what we want to do!..the answer to question 3: No, God was not punishing the Jews!..In my line of profession, I've heard quite a few of you atheist ask these same question and it's OK that you're curious about it!..To get a very good understanding about God & why things were done, etc. etc. etc. you need to research the Scriptures..The Plan Of Salvaton: The Redeemption Of Man; God's Love & Mercy: etc.
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my bf is atheist.  he's jewish and doesn't believe in anything more powerful than himself.  SO, one day when he won on a scratch ticket about 500 bucks he yells,  "there is a GOD"  now he believes.  What a weirdo but it's true.\n\nI have always believed in GOD and nothing can change that for me.
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The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were "life unworthy of life." During the era of the Holocaust, the Nazis also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. \n\nBelow is an informative link all about the Holocaust.
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Why is anyone even asking this question?  The level of ingorance that one has to have to doubt it happened - only serves to perpetuate the root causes of this holocaust and create more in the future.\n\nSee the movie The Man in the Glass Booth, about Eichmann's trial in 1966.  If you get to travel in Europe, go see the sites of Sobibor, Auscwitz, Treblinka, Madenek, Dachau, read up on Babi Yar in Russia and talk to any Jewish person from Europe.