Did they bless the Atomic Bomb before they dropped it on the Japanese?

Question

Not judging, but it's an interesting historical question, that provides an insight into the minds of people at that time. It is also a chance to reflect on faith and the uses to which it is put.

Answer 1

Sad, makes me very sad.

My father was a B-29 pilot stationed on the island of Tinian from where the Enola Gay and Bock's Car took off.

He was sleeping at the time and had no idea what was going on.

Sadder still is knowing Eisenhower, MacArthur and all the top generals except LeMay were against the bomb, as Japan had offered to surrender months before and negotiations were underway. There were no invasion plans except on paper, no troop movements for such.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not military targets.

We eventually agreed to the one sticking point of surrender: allowing Hirohito to remain Emperor. There was no need to drop the bomb.

My father was conflicted over this his entire life. He was there.

Answer 2

The Bomb was dropped on civilians as an experiment, to see how it affected a populated area (Fallout, Radiation levels after the initial blast, etc...)...

Why didn't they drop it on the Japanese Navy/Army or Major Airbase???

The powers that be, and they know who they are, didn't give a flying f**k about God or Religion - They could have dropped it 30-40 miles of the coast of Japan as a warning!

Answer 3

they could understand the aptitude of the killing variety of the bomb, a minimum of the pilot could,you may guess there have been prayers provided from extra advantageous than between the group that day .It became an undesirable decision that a bomb of this importance, be synthetic, yet later events proved, how close to the enemy became to doing only that,yet we did no longer initiate the war, they did, with appalling outcomes.

Answer 4

Probably not. Even if they did, so what? It ended the war - the worst one in history.

Now put yourself in the place of thousands of American soldiers and prisoners of war that would have been killed or maimed in the invasion of Japan (not to mention the Japanese civilians) - would you want the war over fast? Not good to judge a time from an era more than 50 years beyond - historical revisionism sucks eggs.

Answer 5

They were ordered to drop a bomb it was large. They were trying to end a war. They were thinking of thousands of men who died at Pearl Harbor, asleep in their beds. The civlians that were dead in the harbor, the thousands of men on all those God forsaken islands that were spilling their blood on foreign soil never to see their family or friends in USA again. I don't know if they blessed it but God bless them that they did or we would all be speaking Japanese right now.
You weren't even alive then, you have no right to judge them, absolutely none!

Answer 6

I don't know if they blessed them, but people wrote messages on those 2 bombs before they dropped them.

Answer 7

Please God let this get across to those Japanese so they will surrender before any more have to die...........

Our soldiers are in need and so are thiers

Let This END it ALL


IN reality the normal fire bombings on Japan caused more deaths and destruction then both Atomic Bombs that were dropped...........just the Japanese knew with just one was so destructive, thier fear was what was next ?.......

so they surrendered............

Answer 8

I too have relatives that flew with Jimmy Doolittle and his gang on that flight

some are still religious and patriotic to this day, convinced God sanctions killing and violence to favor a 'supreme' nation or people

Answer 9

Probably, all kinds of hideous things get carried out in the name of 'god'.

Answer 10

Don't get mad!.Get Even!
Yes,,same as they did just before the bombs dropped on us ..
God get a memory..