For those who were not spared agony and death in the concentration camps, was it because they didn't pray hard enough? Or that they prayed and were told "no"?
Does that mean that once again, "God" knew their real needs better than they did and decided that their lives were not real needs? Or does it mean that God had condemned them?
If that's the case, and the Nazis killed them off, does that mean the Nazis were the hand of God?
Does it not make more sense to just admit that God, if it exists, had and has no hand in this world, and that people do terrible things and may or may not get away with it?
Many of my people were killed.. the gays.
2007-11-15 05:01:11 · 8 answers · asked by coralsnayk 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When people look toward "heaven" with glistening eyes and marvel that.. 'His ways are...Uknowable." I have to laugh. That is NOT good enough. God has to be held to a higher standard.
2007-11-15 05:06:14 · update #1
I'm not saying that NONE were spared. Read the QUESTION.
I'm asking of those NOT spared.. did they deserve to die?
2007-11-15 05:13:23 · update #2
Edit to paperback_writer:
You tell me.. since that happened, did God sanction it by passively allowing it?
And it is ok to put an O in the word God. It's a job description, not a name. When people put a dash over the o in god, it reminds me of putting polite fingertips over your lips after a little burpie-poo.
2007-11-15 05:16:25 · update #3
Hitler himself was a Roman Catholic and the Third Reich was founded in the name of German Nationalism, of which Christianity was a part. Also, I said the victims, not just the Jews.. More than just Jews. Gays, Nazis, Jehova's Witnesses, etc.
2007-11-15 06:06:50 · update #4
of course they did
and the prayers fell on deaf ears
2007-11-15 05:04:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Well, we Jews are still around and the Nazis...... aren't.
As for your repugnant suggestion linking Nazis with G-d, I don't think any just, merciful, compassionate G-d would condone much less cause the things that went on inside the concentration camps.
Do you think G-d would sanction separating twin children into different buildings, and then torturing one until he died, to see if the remaining twin could detect the other's pain 'telepathically'?
The G-d my religion worships would not sanction that.
edit,
Well, fortunately, I don't actually care what you think about the way I or many other Jews write G-d. Your question, about G-d and the Holocaust, is one that certainly most Jews, and many non Jews, wonder about and worry about but ultimately, there are no satisfactory answers. Not that I've encountered, anyway.
2007-11-15 05:13:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There were a whole set of things that could do that .In the case of the Jewish race they are all working out a serious karma from the ancient past and have as yet a long ways to go before they can even begin to tread the path of initiation.Hitler and those around him are a group of profound ly wicked and very deeply evil human beings that tried to bring the hell on earth as they were all dedicated Satanists who were planing to dominate the entire world and to make of man a babbling idiot and full of the fear of death which is a very un-natural as far as this world is concerned.
2007-11-15 05:18:23 · answer #3 · answered by mike hughes 52 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God gave us this world and we do with it as we please, for good or bad, war has nothing to do with lack of praying, he gave us free will so if the decision of the powerful is to hurt the weak then the powerful will be made weak and jugded by God at the right time.
If God would stop one war to save the innocent then he would have to stop all wars to be fair with all victims, im not saying there are no longer miracles in this world, but in this case things are just like that.
2007-11-15 05:19:28 · answer #4 · answered by Paul Preston 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NEWS FLASH:
The Nazis lost the war, and there still are Jews, despite the fact the World's Freedom Fighters didn't get involved until business and political interests were threatened.
Looks like prayer works.
2007-11-15 05:06:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God did deliver a lot of them. My school janitor was a Holocaust survivor, and this shows that God did deliver some of them. I personally think that the true lesson of the Holocaust is that evil is real and tangible in this world, and must be opposed by those whom are good.
BTW trying to judge God is a zero sum game. God was not behind it, the evil Nazi ideology was.
2007-11-15 05:11:37 · answer #6 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You would probably get more responses if the questions wasn't phrased such that you've shown you have an answer and want no others.
I do like how you've insisted God has to answer to a higher standard-yours.
2007-11-15 05:12:17 · answer #7 · answered by chessale 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The word spoke in the book of Matthew, that because they had not accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior, that he would not receive them. Understand, their are many Jews who made it to heaven by faith, but few have made it by the heart because they are bound with the same foolishness that visited the Pharisees. Remember, when they crucified Christ, the people admitted that they will accept the consequences for generations.
After this time, many had shed the orthodox religion, and accepted Christ seeing that faith alone is dead. This is why they now have a land again, but the Lord waits for the rest to turn back. Lest they do as many had before, and murder more of his prophets. Just as he did with Ezekiel, many of the miracles seen in Isreal were for his name, becasue of our unrighteousness.
2007-11-15 05:12:32 · answer #8 · answered by GodCares 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋