This is a link to the diary of a jewish girl (not Anne Frank) in World War II. And you wonder why people don't believe in God?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_holocaust_diary
2007-06-05 05:45:59 · 19 answers · asked by Kallan 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thanks Samurai Jack. You at least read the article.
And to the idiot who said I'm an atheist, better read my profile.
2007-06-05 05:54:07 · update #1
Very sad to think of all the other Rutkas and their stories we will never hear.
2007-06-05 06:15:36 · answer #1 · answered by benignmalaprop 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the "why would God let (this or that) happen?" is a common question asked by those whose faith is shaken. Its no surprise that "God works in mysterious ways" or "Its part of God's plan" is little reassurance to those seeking relief. I am an atheist, so the "why would God let that happen" question never arises for me. However, to answer your question: I do understand why some people feel the need to believe in a god, but I truly fail to understand why on "God's Green Earth" anyone would believe in the Bible or the Judeo-xtian God (and other clearly man-made deities). As one who has grown up in xtianity, I've found it a simply unbelievable and worthless religion. And as for the God of the Bible, a truly horrible, contemptible entity that is surely not worthy of acknowledgment, let alone worship.
2007-06-06 15:30:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I read that story in my local paper and I was sad for hours after and couldn't stop crying. I had 17 members of my family murdered by the Nazis in Buchenwald and so I'm familiar (I wish I wasn't!) with stories like that. But it's not that story or any of the others about the atrocities committed by humans against each other that keeps me from believing in God. It's the people like the first two posters who do. I don't want to believe in the same God they do because I don't want to follow any deity who wants people like them as followers. Please drop the Judeo and just say the Christian God...because that's what it is. Christians and Jews simply do not believe in the same God.
2007-06-05 18:51:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Heart wrenching.... One of the more touchier subjects. But I do have to wonder, if people do not believe in the biblical God, but other Gods/Goddess', who do they blame for this? As a Pagan I blame the people committing the acts... not the Gods the victims or the perpetrators follow. Certainly my own allows things to happen, usually for reasons (even if we don't fully comprehend what those reasons are... even afterward). But I can understand how someone can lose their faith in their respective God... especially when the particular God is claimed to keep his people safe.
2007-06-05 13:25:52 · answer #4 · answered by River 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the Judeo Christian God is not the only thing there is to believe in. There are those that refuse to be herded like the sheep Christians purport themselves to be.
Personally, my God is a part of me, and of every living thing in existance, that makes me as much a part of It. I don't buy into man's definition of what someone wrote thousands of years ago, and then the same man or men telling me how to live my life based on what they happen to believe.
2007-06-05 12:51:28 · answer #5 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm with Don't Panic. Drop the Judeo line. Many Christians believe that pain brings them closer to God.
Many Jews were able to keep their "faith" despite living in the Christian culture.
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2007-06-05 17:11:31 · answer #6 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
American christians have no sense of history. They are as detached from reality as their bible is. I'm sure they have plenty of reasons why this was a 'just' and 'loving' act from their god towards his chosen people. I'm sure every single one of them thinks that even though their god allowed this to happen, it was for some good reason that none of us can understand. I loathe religion, and am slowly beginning to have a deep seeded hate for it. I'm sure you understand.
2007-06-05 13:03:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
What is this 'Judeo-Christian' god?
According to the Christians, their God has a plan which includes these horrors. We're apparently supposed to believe that he knows best.
Please don't include our name in that travesty. That 'God' has nothing to do with Judaism.
2007-06-05 13:04:26 · answer #8 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Living through something like that and thinking that everything that happens is 'God's will' must have been devastating. I can't imagine the hell they went through on a daily basis.
2007-06-06 21:59:06 · answer #9 · answered by whillow95 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first two posters are reason enough not to believe in God.
2007-06-05 12:50:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 1⤋