How are events like the holocaust and hiroshima explained or justified by religion (of any kind)?

Answer 1

Neither is justifiable. Holocaust was for the most part a unrelgious act. There were some catholics who believed Jews were wrong and the killers of Jesus (which is nonsense since it was the Romans).

Hiroshima had no religious conotations. I think it was wrong no matter what for civilians to be killed in a military manner. They could have bombed a japanese fleet or as some think explode it high over Japan where the power could be witnessed but would harm no one.

Answer 2

I was unaware that you needed an explanation for those events from a religion. I suppose our answer would be the same as any. Because Hitler was a crazy man with a strong hunger for world power and control. And because he was working with crazy people who thought he was all powerful and other leaders of countries that were just as crazy as he was. I find it hard to believe that you would find someone who would try to justify or defend any of their actions. Noone thinks that the holocaust was justified. At least not any religious person I know. I think you all think that we have some religious solution for everything. Well we do not. We dont always try to justify things with the word of God or our religion or anything else. Sometimes we do not the meaning or reason for things either.

Answer 3

what is the holocaust or hiroshima compare to great flood?
Everything to Christanity is jsutified by GOD's unknown reasons. Or they use statment like " all evil is for greater good" This way can justify all kinds of genicide, murders and so on that Christianity performed trough the history.
One thing to note that no1 and i repeat no1 knows what reasons GOD has to allow all that bullshit. They claim we can't udnerstand but reasons are soo good. They just being blind of thier own ignorance.
Another Q is to ask how current POPE can justify holocaust when he him self was a nazi soldier and was performing what today he is trying to avoid.
Therefore Religion is the form of evil and organised crime.

Answer 4

It CAN'T be justified in any way , same with all the savage burtility in Africa, Russia during Stalins rule , the catholic inqueistion , the Arabs and Jews,Korea, China or any place except to say SATAN must be having a field day... The God i serve does not require me to hate to be pleasing to Him or to myself// I really enjoy helping others/// I just got a part time job as a driver who takes the sick , disabled and elderly back and forth to the Drs',to work for the handicap and wherever they need to go i usually drive abt 300 miles a day loading unloading and it keeps me busy i'd do it for nothing , i just dont understand why there is so much hatered in this world and i came from a hardworking sharecropping family who you modern day counslers would say hes a candiate for prison//// I think its in a person's bloodline to be evil and hate and its up to him to decide what hes going to do/// It has been discovered that this type of person has a change of personality for the better working helping others but the program was stopped, why??? Dont ask me, maybe some dont want evil people who hate to change their ways??? enuff,enuff ,enough, sorry i got on my soapbox.....//////

Answer 5

Hiroshima wasn't religiously motived. It was an attempt to end the war quickly and hopefully in the bigger picture save more lives.

No religion I know of would justify either event. Most religions try to discourage violence.

Answer 6

Hiroshima and Nagasaki do not in any way represent religion.

President Truman remained awake for more than 30 hours, gathering all info available from all his sources, before making his decision.

In the planned invasion of the Japanese mainland, already in preparation, he not only weighed the losses of our own troops, but he weighed the numbers of losses among the Japanese people.
He knew that Japan was fortified and prepared to war to the death, even of their own civilians.

Bear in mind that we did not have "smart bombs" back then.
Bombs were dropped with unknown "accuracy".

The calculated loss of US troops was estimated to be near 500,000 in an invasion. As to Japanese, I do not know.

If I had to make that decision, I would have to use this axiom.

"Do what is best,
For the most people,
Over the longest period of time"

Pray tell, where does religion come into play?

The study history and Hitler, answers your other question.

Answer 7

I do believe that II Timothy 3:1-5 pretty well covers what you need to know. Maybe we are responsible for this man made self fulfilling prophecy because we are raised with the memory that the bible is from GOD. Maybe we should look outside the box, look at other religions that say what you need to hear to keep you in peace. There are 2 ways to interpret THE GOLDEN RULE, one is "he who has the gold makes the rules" or the one I like to live by which is from the bible is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," I guess it matters what your looking for in life.

Answer 8

i think you are going to be hard pressed to find any evidence of the fact that either has been officially explained or justified by the perpetrators of those two events were related to religon

hitler executed the jews not necessarily because of their religon but because of their race, that is, he executed them because he thought that the Jews were an international group whose associations across national lines was a threat to power and an abuse of power

president truman never tried to explain hiroshima by using religon, his appeal was more or less "its us or them" and he used mathematics to demonstrate that more people would be killed by a land invasion of the japanese islands than would with a atom bomb

Answer 9

These things happen in the name of religion because people what to justify their actions, so they will twist and use what ever they can to look like they are doing what is right.

Answer 10

The Judeo-Christian religion has always justified genocide. Look at the Joshuan Conquest. That is perhaps the original genocide.

Remember also that Samson didn't go around killing bad people (he himself was a rather unsavory fellow), his job was to kill Philistines - ethnic cleansing.