Was the "Holocaust" about Science or Religion?
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Actually, it was about neither. It was economics and social structure. You need to learn a LOT more about the haulocaust. Hitler was anti-religion. He made the Catholics of Germany burn their bibles, etc.
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Have you not had any history lessons yet?  The Holocaust is the name applied to the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 8th and 9th November 1938 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, leading to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.\n(There is more info about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust\n\nAlso read the book "Diary of Anne Frank".  See if you can find a copy of the tv miniseries "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance".  They were made from books written by Herman Wouk and had actual footage from the concentration camps, etc.\n\n\nTry these sites for movies about the holocaust:\nhttp://www.thirdreich.net/Holocaust_Movies.html\nhttp://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/MOVIES.htm\nhttp://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/schindlers-list.html
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Hell no. \n\nScience alludes to a rigorous process by which things are proven to be fact.\n\nAnything that is a matter of speculation (religion) cannot be considered scientific.\n\nHowever there is such a thing as the science of religion which is a sort of sociology. But this is sociology -- the scientific study of human behavior. \n\n It is not science like biology, physics, chemistry, calculus. Science is inherently unbiased, and non-subjective.\n\nAny religios text, Im afraid to say does not fall into any type of 'science' category. It may be studied in a Sociological or Philosophical context for enrichment purposes.\n\nI dont think anyone hates the Quran, or any religios text, rather I think that people dont like it when other people impose their views on them. There are 6 billion people in this world each with their own version of religion, we cant go around calling everyone infadels becaues they dont believe in the same things we do. \n\nI wouldnt want to live in a world where everyone was the same -- it would be boring.\n\nAs unpopular as Muslims may seem to be, let not the fact ellude you that catholics, mormons, christians, hindus, daoist, yoga hippies, all get their fair share of dislike. \n\nI mean take in the U.S. for example, most people dont like how the religious people try to impose their silly ideas of anti-abortion and creationism on the rest of us. \n\n At the end of the day there is always someone who doesnt like someone else (more Sociology) for some silly reason.\n\nI personally do not like people who are overly religious, and use religion to explain everything they dont understand, while there are perfectly good scientific reasons out there. In my humble opinion, religion and education are contradictory.\n\nAlas, despite our differences we must learn to get along.
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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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Well, this is a touchy question...God or science. It is also a complicated question, but I will do my best.\n\nThe thing about faith, is if you don't have it, you don't understand it, but if you have it then no explanation is neccessary. In other words, people of faith do not need proof nor do they care to learn, they simply believe in God. People of science need proof of what they believe in. Scientists believe in the atom because they can see it, they can study it. Religious followers do not need to see God to believe in him. \n\nSince man could first walk upright we have been searching for a reason that we are here. Some people turn to God to make their search simple and refreshing. Others turn to science in order to seek a more rational explanation. \n\nReligion is nothing more than a very comforting way of going about your life. God put you here for a reason, God will protect you, God will forgive you, God will give you eternal happiness, and so on are just ways of controlling the weaker 96% of the worlds population. \n\nOn your question, science has not proven that religion is fraud, but it has proved that certain things mentioned in the Bible are untrue. This is easy because the Bible is not a historical record, it is a collection of stories that were passed down by mouth for generations before ever written down. As an example, the Bible says the world was created in six days, (remember, the seventh day was for rest not creation), well, was that six Earth days, or extra-solar days? A lot of what is in the Bible is relative. \n\nNow, although science has proven that a great many things in the religious world are not factual, science has yet to prove that God does not exist. That is one thing that science may never be able to prove...but just to be fair, Religion will also never be able to prove that science is wrong.\n\nI realize that I have put a negative window on religion and I wish to correct this. I myself, am Atheist...I have no belief in any God, I simply believe that no God exists, and I am fine with that. Many others have a need to believe in God. They feel good believing that there is an all-knowing and omnipotent being watching over them and taking care of them and guiding them, I have no problems with that in fact I encourage that.\n\nAlthough I am Atheist, I do read the Bible because the Bible does not only teach about God, it teaches you a good way to live your life and how to be a good person, it teaches morals, values, discipline, and responsibility. If you feel you need to believe in God, then you should, if you are comfortable not believing in God, then go ahead. It is all about personal convictions and preferences. Believe or dis-believe in whatever, or whoever you chose and let others do the same.\n\nI will end this with a quote, although I am not sure who said it. "If God did not exist, then it would be neccessary for man to create Him"
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I think that scientists are above that petty religious crap.\n\nWe're the better people for bettering humanity.  They can keep their religious petri-dish people have soul's crap to themselves.
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For the person who mentioned it, science disproves your god and your bible. I would respect people who were religious if they would just say, "There is no proof or evidence; it is just my faith."\nOh, and to the person who wrote it, Einstein was an atheist.
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ok i mean science is both good and bad. it can save peoples lives threw medicine or new technology but it can also kill people like biological weapons and things like the hydrogen bomb or the uranium atomic bomb.  science can also start religious problems. Some people say evolution and some say god just created us from nothing. so it is really from whos point of view you look at it.
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The Holocaust was more than a Jewish event. Records kept by the Germans prove they exterminated millions of Communists, Czechs, Greeks, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, mentally and physically handicapped, Poles, resistance fighters, Russians, Serbs, Socialists, Spanish Republicans, trade unionists, Ukrainians, Yugoslavians, prisoners of war of many nations, and still others whose identity may never be recognized. Their victims, according to one survivor of four different concentration camps, "were of some thirty nationalities, from Nepalese to Andorrans, and of a variety of racial and linguistic stocks ranging from Basques to Buriats and from Ladinos to Lapps". When people were not immediately exterminated, they were sent to work and/or concentration camps. There the prisoners were divided into six penal categories and given patches on their clothing for identification purposes. Ordinary criminals were assigned green; political prisoners wore red; black was worn by asocials (slackers, prostitutes, procurers, etc.); homosexuals wore pink; conscientious objectors wore purple, and the Jewish people wore yellow.\n\nOh and by the way Hitler was NOT of the jewish faith ... Hitler, himself, was a Catholic.
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well, you do bring up a good point, we have to have faith to believe both - for science we must have faith that truth exists and it can be explained by rational laws coming from experiments, and for religion we must have fauth that truth exists and is given by god and/or gos'd word which is contained in religious texts. the scientific faith requires a much smaller leap - it is hard not to believe something that can be reproduced over and over and becomes more and more powerful a tool for explanations. religion requires believing texts written, interpreted, and recopied by men long ago, and cannot be tested at any time.\nyou could choose, like nietzsche, to put faith in neither, and to doubt the existance of any ultimate truth. if you do choose to believe there is truth, then for me, science is far more persuasive.
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. \nAlbert Einstein\n\nI have always used science to help understand religion and religion to help understand science.
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"when he denies holocaust he must go to jail"\nCan you cite ANY examples of this? My heavens, you are much more likely to find yourself in hot water for criticizing the homosexual agenda in this country. The problem with Holocaust denial is twofold: one, factually speaking it's right up there with those who say the moon landing never occurred, and two, those who believe that in every case I have ever seen are racists of the most virulent sort. In the US, but biggest concentration of holocaust deniers can be found in universities. In Europe, it's the hoi poloi. Also, it can be found anywhere you find concentrations of Muslims. The head of Fatah wrote his dissertation on holocaust denial (he is a denier himself), the president of Iran has public questioned the Holocaust and called for the destruction of Israel. It is the talk amongst the conspiracy minded (that is almost all) in the middle east.
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There is an excellent and very detailed analysis of this question in the book "Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time" by Michael Shermer. He discusses the motivations and tactics of those who deny the Holocaust ever happened; then he goes on to provide evidence of how we know it did. It's a fascinating book. I highly recommend it.\n\nAnd yes, as you can imagine, they are largely anti-Semitic with a bit of a paranoid streak, and tend to be conspiracy theorists as well.
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He was a professor of History (as I remember it).  Who happens to be one of those people who deny the Holocaust.  He has been for a while, I guess he just did it in the wrong place this time.
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First, it is spelled "Holocaust."\n\nThere are two conflicting version on it. According to the one popularized in the English-speaking world, the Holocaust was carried out in a systematic manner by Hitler and the German secret police, state police and army since the start of the war. According to this version, six million Jews died.\n\nThe other version is more current among other countries, including Asian, Eastern European and Latin American countries: the Holocaust happened during the last year of the war, when the German army was retreating in all fronts and they didn't have enough effectives to take care of the prisoners held in concentration camps. So the thousands of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, etc. who died did so because no one could give them food or water.\n\nIn this version, the total number of dead was under the million, and the total number of Jews who died was between 100,000 and 600,000.\n\nSeveral details support the second theory: the statistics from the World Almanacs of those years report a population of about nine million Jews in Europe before the start of the war. The totals reported in 1949 and after still report similar numbers. In certain regions, mostly the Soviet Union, the increase was significant. The difference corresponds to the increase in Jewish people in both the UK and the USA.\n\nIn fact, comparing the numbers from the census of 1935-1939 with those obtained in 1949-1952, it is impossible that the numbers of Jews killed during WW2 could have been greater than a million. Not even an extreme change in their birth rates could justify that.\n\nAnother little piece of evidence comes from pictures of the concentration camps: the supposed gas chambers, that were fashioned as showers, are not hermetically sealed buildings. In order to asphyxiate/poison thousands of people with cyanide pellets dropped through vents, you needed a way to seal the chambers. That way was not found.\n\nThe ovens were used to process the dead. Considering the elevated numbers of dead people from the camps once food and water stopped arriving, it is understandable that the guards tried to get rid of the bodies as soon as possible, in order to prevent the spread of disease (what would affect them as well).\n\nThe Holocaust was horrific, even though its magnitude has been greatly exaggerated in English-speaking countries. One cannot justify that something like that could be done by people to other people.
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both are very real. the holocaust was hitlers way of gettin rid of people of jewish faith.idealisticly hitler wanted a superior race,blonde haired blue, eyed men and women possibly under the age of 35.he was a satanic man and had the urged to rule the world.he started in the german army as a corporal but,rose to the top leader of nazi germany.he executed the jewish people simply because they were and are GODs chosen people according to the old testament {KJV}. im a christian and i have my own opinions and understandings which i wont go into now, but, hitler was not a godly man and since he did not beleive in GOD, i figure he didnt want anyone else to.now palestine is a country and a arab one at that.they are like their sister countries.always fighting about something and always in a state of unrest.arab nations have fought with each other or against each other for centuries and will till the end of time.i never understood the arabs really until i could halfway understand thecivil war.father against son,brother against brother.i know nothing of the term Palestine Murderer. could be the killing of a person or people or of the country.just my  simple understanding
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I believe you mean "Shoah", which is the Hebrew word for the Holocaust. Just remember to substitute Shoah for Holocaust (or vice versa) as you read the article. \nIf you want more sources, look up Holocaust; there will be a lot of information.