Do Christians ever feel Guilty about the Holocaust?

Question

Serious question.

Answer 1

Do they need to????

Why????

Because Hitler was a Christian????

Look again, he was part Jew!?!?

Mohammad exterminated the beni al Nadir, the beni al Mostalaq and the beni al Quraish tribes of the Jews!?!? Islam has massacred more Jews, Assyrians, Egyptians, Turks, Babylonians, Persians Hindus, Buddhists and many more ... more than ten times whatever Hitler and the whole Thrid World War did!?!? And it continues to do so!?!?

So, now, what do you have to say???? That Christians must feel guilty for this????

Didn't you just blame the Christians of killing others in the Name of Holy War and accuse us of racial selective attacks????

What are you trying to do, Pretty Boy????

Answer 2

I don't feel guilty because "Guilt" implies that I had some form of involvement or I was complicit and did nothing. I feel a great measure of sadness when I see movies about it, sadness that one human being can do that to another and wonder how so many people could have participated in it. I have studied the Nazi’s and the Holocaust for YEARS, trying to understand why it happened. What could drive someone to hate groups of people so much that they wanted to exterminate them? Tried to understand how they could get so many willing participants, from the guards at the camps, the people who operated the gas chambers and crematoriums, to the death squads who went to newly conquered German territories and rounded up Jews and simply shot them there. I have studied for years and I just can’t grasp it and I fear I will never be able to understand it.
Do I feel guilt, No but do I cry when I visit the Holocaust museum in Washington DC? The answer is yes.

Hitler and his SS followers were not Christian; Hitler had renounced Christianity and was very involved in symbolism and the Occult. Himler was In the process of creating a new Nazi religion with deep roots in the occult. The whole Aryan race was a myth; they were a race of people that were supposed to be descended from God’s. Hitler identifying the Germans and other Nordic peoples, as “Aryan’s” was the first steps in instituting this new religion they were to create.

Answer 3

This question was asked a few weeks ago, and I am going to answer this one the same as I answered the other one.

Why should I personally feel guilt about something that I myself had nothing to do with? I can not control what those in my past did, or didn't do. I can only control myself.

The Holocaust issue is no different than slavery or racism. Why should I feel guilty or be held responsible for what others in the past did? I wasn't even alive when any of that happened, so why should I feel any guilt in something I had nothing to do with?

Answer 4

I sure don't.

I think it was a terrible thing that happened but I don't understand why I should feel guilty. I wasn't even born when the Holocaust happened. Heck, my parents weren't even born. I honestly don't see why I would blame myself for something I had no control over. And if anyone is dumb enough to associate me with the people who were responsible for said events just because I'm a Christian, then I feel sorry for him/her for being so ignorant.

Answer 5

Peace!
I am a Christian but I don't feel any guilt because I am not a Nazi or a German.
If there is anyone who should feel guilty, I think it should be reason-driven atheist philosophy because the atheist Nietzsche convinced Hitler that it was alright to slaughter 6 million Jews. I don't think Hitler was a Christian either. He may have been baptized a Christian but the things he did were certainly not Christian. I read somewhere that he even suppressed Christian worship.
I think you should read the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It's all there.

Answer 6

Why should a christian feel guilty about the Holocaust? I know where you're going with this....your going to say Hitler was a "catholic christian" so as a result we should feel guilty for the murdering of six million jews. Nice try, but already your argument is bogus. Try again, slick

Answer 7

No -- although, obviously, any decent person (Christian or not) should feel absolutely horrified that such a thing could happen.

In my history classes in high school, we learned that the perpetrators of the Holocaust were called Nazis. Not Christians.

Remember, too, that an almost equal number of non-Jews (most of whom were Christians) also lost their lives in the Holocaust.

Pope Pius XII was universally praised by Jews around the world for his efforts in saving Jews from Hitler.

One of them, the chief rabbi of Rome, even converted to Catholicism and chose Eugenio as his baptismal name. Eugenio was Pius XII's real first name.

This was long before it became fashionable to accuse Pius XII of being a Nazi collaborator -- not in the interest of historical accuracy, of course, but rather in the interest of good old-fashioned Catholic-bashing.

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Answer 8

Why? That was the Nazis. In case you slept through history class, Christian nations (America (which was prodomiatly Christian at the time) and Enland) were the ones that put a stop to it. I do not feel guilty for what they did, I had nothing to do with it. I"m part German, but I would never do anything like that.

It's stupid to dwell on a past we can't change. Try looking to the future.

Answer 9

I don't feel guilty, because I wasn't there and I didn't authorize or participate in it. The Holocaust wasn't instigated or authorized by a Christian church, so Christians shouldn't feel guilty. Hitler and his followers proved by word and deed they were not truely Christian.

However, I do feel an overwhelming anguish that it happened, yes.

Answer 10

Not as an atheist, but as a part of humankind I think the whole of humankind should feel guilty when things like that happen.

I feel guilty that we, humankind, again today allowed for 40,000 innocent kids to die from starvation and aids.

Our tax money is spent on useless wars, and for charity we have to collect money door-to-door. Sometimes I wonder what the world would look like if we turned those two things around. If we spent our tax money on charity, and if we had to go door-to-door to finance our wars.

I know that's naive, I know it will never happen. But sometimes I wish everybody would be as naive as I am.

Answer 11

I am pretty sure that a million or better Italians were part of that "holocaust" and should be compensated by our government and they are christian...i wonder if the jews feel guilty since hitler was part jewish.