“After the holocaust, it is impossible to believe in an all-powerful and loving god”
In this essay, I will be expressing my opinion about whether or not- ‘After the holocaust, it is impossible to believe in an all-powerful and loving god.’ I personally do not believe in god, however, I shall go through arguments for and against intended for the above statement.
The holocaust. One of the most blood-stained pages in history’s books. From 1941 to 1945, more than six million Jews were murdered in one of the biggest genocides in world history. Throughout the Nazi regime, Jewish men, women and children were marked as different and inferior. Germans believed that they were racially superior and that the Jews were a danger to the community. As the Nazi Party’s influence spread throughout Europe, the Germans persecuted and murdered millions of Jews. The Jews were sent to ghettos to live with other Jews. The ghettos were used to hold the Jews in one place and to keep an eye on them. As the war drew to a close, the ghettos and camps were over flowing with prisoners. To solve this problem, the Nazi’s came up with the final solution, in which they planned to exterminate the whole population of Jews living in German occupied countries and the
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He asks- Who is asking the question? He says that the question is irrelevant to someone who anyway does not believe in god. To that person, the Holocaust would just be a brutal event in world history. However, for the many people that do believe in god, it is a serious question that is asked by them. It is after all they who are the ones that believe that god is all powerful or omnipotent, all seeing or omniscient, and all loving. And it is these people who wonder why god did not stop such brutality and suffering. Why did he not protect his people as he watched another of his people inflicting unimaginable horrors on other fellow