Seventy years ago this week, the Soviet army liberated Auschwitz -exposing the undeniable evidence of the atrocity of the Nazis and the most grotesque aspects of the curse of religion ever perpetrated on mankind.
The hideousness of the Holocaust begs the answer to the eternal question posed by the Greek philosopher Epicurus:
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Believers will deny Christianity and their obsession with "Christ killer Jews" is to blame. They will move to avert placing the blame on their god for this inhumane obscenity. They will say "God gave man free will", as though it gives their god a pass. They will invoke the "theodicy problem", the defense of God's goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil, which they will claim is "still unanswered."
But in fact the theodicy problem has been answered ever since the first atheist existed ... religionists simply don't acknowledge that answer. To do so would kill their god, just as sure as their insane religious affliction killed the Jews.
...and just this morning we were treated to a presentation by a semi-religious charity taking aid to Africa; their presentation included the history of 20 years of genocide--100,000 people killed in the name of their leaders' commitment to "Christianity."
No, that's the irony. They didn't seem to see the connection between their 21st century "Christian faith" and that of the self-righteous cult responsible for the deaths of 100,000 "heathens" in the name of God.
The question of theodicy, the christian quest to explain the existence of evil in the world, this is where the faith utterly fails.The holocaust was driven by centuries of christian created anti-semitism from the inception of the faith against the killers of the so-called Christ, when confronted with this historical truth the average christian can only only mumble and stammer absurdities about the love and forgiveness of the faith.
"...their insane religious affliction killed the Jews."
Really? Then what killed the Roma in Hitler's camps, the Armenians, the Tutsi and all the other victims of genocide throughout history? Were they all insanely religious?
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Who knew that YOU were such an important cog in your God's plan ... and those kids' starvation is too.
"Oscar the Grouch, why hath thou forsaken me?"
"Forgive them, Jim Hensen, they know not what Muppets do." "Snuffalupagus behold your mother. Miss Piggy, behold your son." (So many possibilities so little space.)
The Koran
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The consummation of the Prophet's marriage to his new bride
Hey, at least he waited till she turned nine
The Prophet Muhammed
Is it any wonder why he couldn't get adult women and had to settle for children?
Fine Religious Art: Jesus endorses the Constitution of the United States
Well, that settles that!. Jesus was evidently a Founding Father and US citizen. OK, maybe an alien resident. Of course, since Jesus was illiterate he may as well be endorsing the menu at Wendy's.
Maybe Mormon polygamy isn't so bad: Julianne Hough, Marie Osmond...
Oh, wait.... never mind.
Sign in a Hasidic neighborhood in New York
Translation: "If we see your leg we will beat you into a much shorter life span."
Billy is about to get a lesson on the meaning of "The Religion of Peace"
"Thank you for your drawing of the Prophet Muhammad, Billy... but now we have to kill you."
Islamic fun at the beach?
Nah! Just preparing a rape victim for stoning in the prescribed Muslim manner, This should curb her unruly sexual desires.
Christianity Explained in 115 Words
The belief that a walking dead Jewish deity who was his own father although he always existed, commits suicide by cop, although he didn't stay dead, in order to give himself permission not to send you to an eternal place of torture that he created for you, but instead to let you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood, and telepathically promise him you accept him as your master, so he can cleanse you of an evil force that is present in mankind because a rib-woman and a mud-man were convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree, which he knew they would do to begin with. -- Anon. _________________________ The whole thing would make Jesus die laughing, if he wasn't already dead, and assuming he ever existed.
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...and just this morning we were treated to a presentation by a semi-religious charity taking aid to Africa; their presentation included the history of 20 years of genocide--100,000 people killed in the name of their leaders' commitment to "Christianity."
They admitted their religious leader's complicity in genocide, Paul? Or am I misunderstanding?
No, that's the irony. They didn't seem to see the connection between their 21st century "Christian faith" and that of the self-righteous cult responsible for the deaths of 100,000 "heathens" in the name of God.
The question of theodicy, the christian quest to explain the existence of evil in the world, this is where the faith utterly fails.The holocaust was driven by centuries of christian created anti-semitism from the inception of the faith against the killers of the so-called Christ, when confronted with this historical truth the average christian can only only mumble and stammer absurdities about the love and forgiveness of the faith.
Gerard,
Precisely!
"...their insane religious affliction killed the Jews."
Really? Then what killed the Roma in Hitler's camps, the Armenians, the Tutsi and all the other victims of genocide throughout history? Were they all insanely religious?
David,
Not all murder, war and genocide is religiously instigated.
The Holocaust was.
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