Do you know only 2 atomic bombs have been dropped in history? Both were dropped by a Christian believer.?

Question

President Harry S. Truman

Answer 1

Who or what else? Christians, Muslims, and Jews...There you have the three major causes of murder and mayhem in the history of the world.

Answer 2

They were dropped by a person. Not God. We are all human, with human frailties and flaws.

Harry Truman did not say that he dropped the bomb in the name of God. Harry Truman dropping the bomb is not equivalent to Christians bombing Japan. That would be just as bad as saying all Muslims were responsible for 9/11.

Answer 3

Harry S. Truman was technically a Baptist.

He had a very colorful career and you can pin a lot of nasty things on him if you really wanted to! Among them:

He created the CIA, NSA, Air Force, National Security Council.

He backed NATO and the UN

He desegregated the Army and passed the first Civil Rights acts.

While he was a Confederate supporter and he almost joined the KKK and he probably used the N word privately at least, he was TOTALLY OUTRAGED that Black Army Soldiers coming back from World War II were being dumped in the streets of Mississippi and beaten to death.

He was anti-communist but also anti-Joseph Mc Carthy.

He got us into Korea and Vietnam

He fired General Marshall when Marshall proposed shooting at China during the Korean war.

He initiated the Berlin Airlift when Russia blockaded Berlin.

He was for national health care

He was opposed to the Taft Harlety act

He was a very mixed bag of conflicting views that span from RADICALLY CONSERVATIVE AND OPPRESIONISTIC to RADICALLY LIBERAL

One cannot pin him into a pidgeon hole!

And everyone unanimously agrees he did the right thing by dropping the bomb. Even I agree with it, becasue of PEARL HARBOR

Had the JAPANESE not drawn first blood with a sneak attack, I'd say it was morally wrong.

But in view of PEARL HARBOR, they had it comming to them!

The ironic thing is that "they make such bloody good cameras!"

Col. Mandrake to Gen. Ripper

Answer 4

And possibly prevented the deaths of millions more...

That decision was not made lightly.

Truman is usually ranked as one of the top presidents. At one time in his term he had the lowest popularity of any president. At another point he had very high popularity.(same swing as the current administration) Shows how history can change how things are viewed over time.

So what if he was "foul mouthed" He was more one of the common people rather than a highbrow.

Doesnt matter if he was Christian or not. He did what he had to to at the time.

Answer 5

Yeah, they saved a lot of lives in the long run too.

It is correct to say that the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima slew innocent lives, however, I believe that more lives would have been killed if the war had lasted longer. More Chinese peasants, soldiers, and even downed allied airmen would have been used as guinea pigs in a Japanese science lab called Unit 571 in Manchuria. Horrible diseases such as the Bubonic Plague were being injected forcefully into their bodies. Also, since the Japanese were losing the war, they relied on so-called wonder weapons for their defensive action. One product of this action was an underwater aircraft carrier. The stealthy aircraft carriers were designed to accomplish the destruction of the Panama Canal. However, when the Americans attacked Okinawa, the Japanese changed the underwater aircraft carriers? purpose. Instead of sending them to Panama, they had the carriers deployed near Okinawa so that they will be able to use their aircrafts there to conduct Kamikaze raids on American warships. If the Japanese launched the planes successfully, I believe that U.S. naval casualties would have been even higher. Such complications for the Americans were already present before the dropping of the atomic bomb, what would have happened if the war had lasted longer? We should also consider the courageous U.S. soldiers fighting a cause to bring Japan down to its knees and the fearless eager men of the Japanese military willing to die for their emperor. I have heard and believe that there is no one else in the world that hates war the most than a soldier. If there had to be a family that hates war, it would be that of a soldier?s. The soldiers on both sides were tired of fighting, but with their steadfast devotion to their causes, they fought. Nearly three years of a defensive war, the Japanese? pride had not been broken, they kept resisting. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had changed all of that.


My grandfather was told that he would be on the very first wave of an amphibious assault on Japan, however, the dropping of the bomb changed that. I had wondered what he was thinking of when he thought he would be going to Japan. I had wondered if he was frightened or nervous. I had wondered if he knew his son had been born a week earlier. I had wondered if he knew that this son would someday be my father. I did not want my grandfather to have died then. Already, at Normandy, only an average of seven out of the total thirty-nine soldiers in a landing craft had survived. If the bomb wasn?t dropped, imagine thousands of American soldiers sprinting for the beachhead with shells exploding wherever they tread. Imagine the kamikaze crashing into LST?s filled with men. The atomic bomb prevented all this from occurring. There is no doubt in the fact that the scientists of the Manhattan Project saved many soldier?s lives as well as civilians?. I myself owe something to the atomic bomb. I would probably not be here today and some of you if it hadn?t been dropped. History is the factor for the present and the future. No matter what your opinions are, you may not change anything that had already been done.

Answer 6

Actually they were dropped by a 32nd Degree Freemason - Harry Truman and developed by Jews. I get the sense there's some connection here. I those guys also killed JFK, or maybe that was the Mafia or was it Marilyn Monroe, or was that Marilyn Manson, or maybe Charlie Manson?
So what is your point?
Buddhists invaded China, Manchuria, Indonesia, Burma, Thailand (Siam) etc, etc and raped, murdered and enslaved countless people. Does that mean Buddhists are somehow evil as you imply Christian believers are?
Or do you reserve your bigotry for Christians only.

Answer 7

Wait, Thomas Ferebee (bombadier of the Enola Gay) was a Christian? Truman was possibly the most dirty-mouthed Christian who ever lived.

Answer 8

Think of all the lives God spared by ending that war. I think it is marvelous how God used hatred of the Jewish people, to bring the inventor of the atomic bomb (A Jew) to america, to use it against those who were persecuting the Jewish people. Isn't Gods Wrath on evil wonderful? How fitting that God allowed this turn of events to happen. God Bless Israel and God Bless USA !!!

Answer 9

Only two were dropped in an act of war, but many have been detonated for testing.

Answer 10

...and we should be thankful that it was not the Russians, Chinese, or Islamic fundamentalists who developed the A-bomb for, be assured,...
... that there would have been a Hell of a lot more than two dropped by now.

For the record: I'm agnostic.