After having a unfortunate discussion with a couple in a pub.
2006-10-29 19:23:45 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because they've never seen the obvious evidence of it, like the footage of millions of dead bodies laying there in the death camps. They've been going through life with blinders on.
2006-10-29 19:28:26 · answer #1 · answered by Loathe thy neighbor. 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
HOLOCAUST (Heb., sho'ah). The word "holocaust" is derived from the Greek holokauston, which originally meant a sacrifice totally burned by fire.
Yes it has happened, I believe. (I wasnt around to be a witness then so I am happy to believe the historical renditions without question - some historical facts are altered depending on what Country is writing them but this one seems to be of a uniform nature whatever country you read books from).
And of course it wasnt just one religous group killed in this way, but many many varieties of minority peoples who had the misfortune to be 'selected' due to religion, race, creed, political view etc.
I dont think it should be considered a one-time event that makes the world owe a particular group though - this sort of death and mayhem has existed for all time and will exist for all time to come as well. For an example in this world at the moment it can be reasonably argued that Palestine is the victim of a holocaust at the moment perhaps?, with the opressed now becoming the opressors and the world turning a blind eye again ?. I dont know.
Takes a lot of thinking to come to a rational viewpoint when all situations are considered, rather than an isolated event.
I wouldnt want the murder that happened years ago to have happened any more than the murder thats going on today. Two wrongs dont make a right !
2006-10-30 04:24:22 · answer #2 · answered by Jon H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes it is more convenient - read comfortable- for people to pretend this kind of things never happened. Sad, in my opinion. If they're misinformed, and do nothing to learn about how brutal these events were....even sadder. I guess it also has to do with where people come from. I guess many Germans nowadays (who have absolutely no fault in this) prefer to put it behind, mainly because of shame for what their grandparents did. I would. But perhaps I would still accept it.
In other cases, I think it is really bad if people choose not to believe it, despite the irrefutable evidence of it. It cost far too many people's lives to ignore, or not to believe. And sadly...this kind of things (luckily in a smaller scale- horribly sad and unnerving too) still happen. When will things change?
2006-10-30 03:40:03 · answer #3 · answered by Luisho 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's healthy to be sceptical but there are some things we should just accept as FACT.
There are also people who deny that the yanks ever landed on the moon.
I think many of these are just boring people trying to make themselves interesting. But in the case of holocaust denial, it is often the simple fact that they hate Jews. We have to ask WHY the Jews are hated throughout history, and it is a difficult question to address.
That's my opinion, you did ask for it.
2006-10-30 03:35:22 · answer #4 · answered by Not Ecky Boy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The holocaust DID happen -- end of story!
And there have been other ethnic cleansings, but not of the same magnitude.
Hitler himself said, "Who remembers the Armenians?" In the 1914-1918 Great War Turkish Muslims marched Armenian Christians into the desert and left them to die. Not on the scale of the Jews, but worth remembering anyway.
2006-10-30 03:31:53 · answer #5 · answered by Iain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a Holocaust in Iraq and Afghanistan everyday. It also happened in Yugoslavia, when the christian Serbs slaughtered hundreds of Muslim In Bosnia.
2006-10-30 03:29:16 · answer #6 · answered by cutiepieaww 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
they dont want to see the evidence.
for different people is a different reason but something about their belief system is made that accepting the Holocaust as fact would be difficult for them so insted they just deny it.
2006-10-30 04:09:39 · answer #7 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks to me like it did happen, but I cannot know for sure. It hurts even to imagine such suffering.
The truth is only what is here and now. Anything else is past, future, simply something you believe in.
2006-10-30 04:36:52 · answer #8 · answered by joju 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because a mind that is closed to truth will deny anything that doesn't fit in with its view of the world.
2006-10-30 07:14:10 · answer #9 · answered by gvih2g2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People tend to turn a blind eye on this
I don't understand it either, had a friend of the family who has now passed who was a survivor
2006-10-30 03:27:09 · answer #10 · answered by snuggels102 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋