a friend of mine said thats what he thinks. I personaly think if there is a god he was not doing anything because soon alot of people would die and be with him, but they were all jews so in christian retrospect they would go to hell. just wondering.
2006-10-15 08:52:11 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I wonder if God made you unable to see the idiocy of this logic because he wanted to subject you, your family and your community to the ridicule you will no doubt receive.
2006-10-15 08:54:36 · answer #1 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Oh my. I cannot believe people actually think like this. What an incredibly sad commentary on the human condition. So using your fractured logic...
Where was god when the Christians were tossed to the lions?
Where was god when Christian Catholics murdered Christians who called themselves Cathars?
Where was god when Protestants and Catholics killed each other in Northern Ireland?
Where was the Christian god for all of these poor Christians?
Do you see the point? Do you understand how fundamentally flawed this logic is? And finally, do you understand just how xenophobic most Christians are and how their belief system is biased at its very core? How their beliefs actually foster prejudice against Jews? Prejudice against anyone who doesn't think and believe as they do?
Your friend, and perhaps even you, might be greatly helped by being put in the position of having to live as the "other." Perhaps having the opportunity to walk in the "other's" shoes for a time might open your eyes to your basic humanity, and open the door to some real compassion and understanding.
2006-10-15 09:03:46 · answer #2 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your friend is truly messed up and doesn't have any idea what he is talking about. First of all, the Jews are considered the favored race with God. They are called the chosen ones, so your friends' theory just got flushed down the toilet. Second of all, the holocaust happened becuase God allowed it to happen, just like He does everything in this world. All things happen for the glory of God. And not all the people in the camps were Jews. There were a lot of what the Nazi's liked to call 'Jew lovers' who died also. And why on earth do you think that the Jews would go to hell? Because they didn't believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah? Please! Haven't you ever heard the term, "Slaughter of the innocents" from Revelation? If you really don't believe in God (and you didn't say that, because you failed to capitalize the word God, which says that you do not believe in lesser gods, but not the true God), then you need to study up on God and do your research so that you can prove your theory of being an atheist or agnostic, which happen to be two different things.
2006-10-15 08:58:30 · answer #3 · answered by sharptooth3 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Personally, I find the view that God is actively doing anything to interfere with our lives to be incorrect. We were given free will and I believe that while God or the higher power may provide us with guidance, I don't think there's some puppet-master pulling strings on a micro-managed level (for lack of a better term). So when someone dies young, is it God's "will" as in God killed that person or made them die? I don't think so. I don't think God did anything to prevent it because we were given life, free will, etc.. and to hand over every event, large and small to some outside force or being is somewhat dangerous.
If you do that, then you end up blaming or attributing everything that happens to God and then you're always asking "why" and looking for God's logic. The holocaust was man's doing as man has free will. It happened because Hitler and the Nazi party hate Jews and wanted them wiped from the Earth.
God didn't do this anymore than God tied your shoe this morning.
2006-10-15 08:59:05 · answer #4 · answered by GrayTheory 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No! The jews are God's chosen people. God chose the nation of israel above all nations. The holocaust happened because evil men wax stronger and stronger and the devil is out to destroy the jewish race. God will deliver his chosen people in time for all the wrong they have suffered. He will avenge his people. And all christians DO NOT hate the jews I am a christian and I love the jewish people.
2006-10-15 09:01:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In short: no. I seem to remember many, MANY Bible verses talking about the Jews being God's chosen people (that's why so many hate them....and not all Christians are anti-sematic). Not everyone who died was a Jew. Many Jehovah's witnesses, gays, and people who helped the Jews died too. Revalations talks about the dead rising and being judged, so I personally don't think anyone will be judged until the end of time. It talks about those who did not have a chance to believe God getting a *second* (for lack of a better word) chance.
2006-10-15 08:59:42 · answer #6 · answered by teeney1116 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
if you read the old testiment you would see God punished isreal many times for going away from him.
I do not say that was the case with the holicoast but I am sure the world has learned from it. if we do not stand up against evil it will only get worse and more extream as we have seen in some other countrys
ps most christians are not anty semetic I have great respect for the jews its just sad they missed their Massiah
2006-10-15 08:59:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Stop abdicating human responsibility. People let the holocaust happen. People kill other people. Some people use religion to justify hating and killing others. People are responsible for the evils in the world. People like scapegoats and some use their religions to judge others as lessor while some others prefer to stand back, do nothing, and then blame it on anyone but themselves.
2006-10-15 09:00:23 · answer #8 · answered by Alex62 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God is not responsable for the Holocaust or any other terrible act by man. While we are here he gave us the rules and sent us on our way to do what is right until we are called back home.Think of it like your dad. He raises you right and you go out and kill someone. Is that his fault? I hope that helped!
2006-10-15 08:58:05 · answer #9 · answered by Piper 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
no god did not let holocast happen,it was the work of a dictator named hitler.god loves all mankind.he put us on this earth to make our own choices.it was was not only jews that died in hitlers death camps.gypsies and people who were not ayran ,or pure bred white people,from mikhal in israel.
2006-10-15 09:02:20 · answer #10 · answered by mikhal k 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would have to say, logically, no. Wasn't (isn't) Jesus, the son of God? And to the best of my knowledge, Jesus was Jewish, wasn't he? So, I would think that Jews would be on the favorites list, don't you? And no, I'm not Jewish.
2006-10-15 09:00:48 · answer #11 · answered by John B 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋