Tuesday, November 18, 2003
This is my contribution to an exchange that comes from the Yahoo News message boards.
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Subject: Re: There are no mistake's in God's world
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>God is all-powerful. Therefore, He allowed
>the holocaust to occur. God is everywhere.
>He was in the Warsaw Ghetto, the trains, the
>cyanide chambers, etc. So, for Jewish scholars,
>a big question is what was God trying to teach
>humankind by allowing the holocaust to happen
>and how can this lesson be applied in our
>everyday lives.
I don't see that as the most important question. I suppose it works if one is trying to avoid the bigger question of whether a god exists at all, but I don't avoid the bigger question. That's why I'm an atheist.
If a god exists, and he allowed six million Jews to die in order to teach humanity a lesson ... one would have to think it was a pretty important lesson. One would be reasonable to think, for that kind of a horrible sacrifice, when all is said and done, we should be able to say "Wow, that was an effective and unambiguous lesson that god just taught us."
And yet, you are here essentially asking, "Uh, what was that lesson, anyway?"
In other words, you think a god exists, and he let six million Jews die to teach us a lesson that we didn't learn.
If that is the case, and god is perfectly good and all-knowing (including knowing his method of teaching would not be effective), why sacrifice six million Jews in a failed attempt to teach it?
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Subject: Re: There are no mistake's in God's world
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>God is all-powerful. Therefore, He allowed
>the holocaust to occur. God is everywhere.
>He was in the Warsaw Ghetto, the trains, the
>cyanide chambers, etc. So, for Jewish scholars,
>a big question is what was God trying to teach
>humankind by allowing the holocaust to happen
>and how can this lesson be applied in our
>everyday lives.
I don't see that as the most important question. I suppose it works if one is trying to avoid the bigger question of whether a god exists at all, but I don't avoid the bigger question. That's why I'm an atheist.
If a god exists, and he allowed six million Jews to die in order to teach humanity a lesson ... one would have to think it was a pretty important lesson. One would be reasonable to think, for that kind of a horrible sacrifice, when all is said and done, we should be able to say "Wow, that was an effective and unambiguous lesson that god just taught us."
And yet, you are here essentially asking, "Uh, what was that lesson, anyway?"
In other words, you think a god exists, and he let six million Jews die to teach us a lesson that we didn't learn.
If that is the case, and god is perfectly good and all-knowing (including knowing his method of teaching would not be effective), why sacrifice six million Jews in a failed attempt to teach it?
