Did the pilot who dropped Hiroshima bomb go to heaven?

Question

http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaTopNews/idUSIndia-30281520071101

He did kill 140,000 yes?

Answer 1

Better ask God. It is not ours to read the heart of a man. Did the Japanese who took two men in prison camp and put them both in one room and then blinded one, and cut the tongue from the other one go to hell?

Answer 2

He saved well over a 100,000 US soldiers by dropping that bomb.

Japan was an incredibly imperialistic nation that saw itself at the shores of the US one day. They did not think the US had the power or will it had to stop them. They would have gone to Australia and New Zealand. The only other way to stop Japan was to do a land invasion in Japan which would have created probably just as many deaths, as well as the numerous other battles that would have been fought on other islands.

You say he killed over a 100 thous. I say he saved a lot more than that.

Look at Japan now. It is in a much better place then it was when it was trying to take over the pacific rim. It is a good thing the US won against Japan.

I dont know where he is right now but he should not be condemned for that one action.

Answer 3

The pilot did not drop the bomb. The bombardier did. The pilot changed into Paul Tibbets and he reached the rank of Brigadier standard before his retirement. He handed on to the great beyond in November of superb 365 days and, by technique of his personal request, he lies in an unmarked grave to stay away from certain human beings from defiling it.

Answer 4

heaven doesn't exist

If you are asking whether he was a good man then consider this:-
+ he was a serving officer in the armed forces and therefore was obliged to do his duty
+ by his actions and by the action of dropping the two atomic bombs, Japan was forced to surrender, thereby saving an estimated 1 million US casualties which would have occurred if the US invasion of Japan had become necessary
+ the bombing of cities such as Tokyo by conventional explosive and incendiary bombs killed far more people than the two atomic bombs. The fact that someone is killed by a single bomb or by one of thousands makes very little difference.

Men such as Paul Tibbetts served their country to the best of their abilities. You must remember that Japan started the Pacific War with the US and throughout were totally merciless and fanatical. Every man, woman and child in Japan was trained to fight and die defending their homeland. Maj. Tibbets and all the others who served had no real say in the matter of where, whether or how to fight - if they had all chosen not to fight then this website would today be exclusively in Japanese and most of the people using it would never have been born, including all the idiots who think that the Japanese could somehow have been negotiated with or pacified or that dropping a bomb is somehow more cowardly than attacking another nation without even declaring war.

Answer 5

There was more then one person in that plane you know. And the full power of the bomb was kept secret from them. None of them knew how powerful it would be until after they dropped it. The ones you should really be asking about would be the people who ordered them to drop it.

Answer 6

Of course dear. He even had the choice of eternal tea parties with Mother Theresa or the beer volcanoes and stripper factories of the heaven of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Answer 7

Considering a Pilot flies a plane, and a BOMBARDIER drops the bombs.. I dont see your logic.

Answer 8

No one can make this decision but God, one thing is certain though he had to face his personal judgment before Christ the only judge of all.

Answer 9

If he was saved, a child of God, then yes he did. But if he did not have God's salvation in his heart, then no, he did not.

Answer 10

Isn't it nice to blindly follow orders... and thereby end up killing a 100,000+ people in the blink of an eye...