Some of the persecuted who managed to survive found their faith in God strengthened and believed that their survival was solely due to his actions, whereas others felt almost guilty for their survival and claimed that their faith had been destroyed along with the lives of their families and friends. The Holocaust has been used to claim that God’s existence is an impossibility or that even if God does exist, Jews should abandon the concept of such a being. This view has radically changed Jewish theology and has presented a number of challenges to those who still have
Humanity, men and women alike, have severely overlooked the enduring power of Judaism as a whole. The Jewish culture portrayed pure tenacity towards the will to survive by their conviction, even we faced the greatest evil known to humanity… the Nazi Regime. January 30, 1933, Germany announced the new chancellor, Adolf Hitler, that ended up changing the course of human history. He wanted to create a superior race and the only way he thought to achieve that goal was to “exterminate” the race he thought was inferior. Unfortunately, the Jewish community got targeted as a race rather than a religion.
Falon Amanda Moss Prof. Edmond Lisa ENC 1102—Virtual Class 20 October 2011 Eliezer’s Faith Struggle Most people ask the question why is there evil? If God is all good then why did he create people who are evil and that rebel? To the unbelievers, and the atheists, this would be their argument. How can an omnipotent, benevolent God allow evil? Eliezer started to struggle with this same question.
His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who
Trying to say that both religions are the same is indeed controversial. The actual religions are similar but portraying Osama Bin Laden as a prophet when he himself did terrible things to his country is wrong, especially when Jesus Christ was a prophet of religion and he- according to the bible- died for the sins of
Before delving into his arguments, Shepkaru repeated the most popular theories of modern historians like Robert Chazan, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and many others as to what were the root causes of the violence against the European Jews. Robert Chazan debates that the Crusaders were driven by “religious idealism” which was blended with a “distorted” version of Pope Urban II’s message; whereas, Jonathan Riley-Smith opines that the Crusaders were so blinded by “religious idealism” that they could not even identify the true enemy from a Muslim or Jew. Taken from Dana Munro and H.E.J Cowdrey, Shepkaru utilizes Pope Urban II’s speech as a backdrop for this scenario.
The Spread Of Genocide Racism has conflicted many countries with catastrophic tragedies. Overtime, genocide became the given title for racial, religious, and ethnic destruction. After the Jewish Holocaust of World War II, many countries pledged to a new world without genocide; however, many recent conflicts in different countries show us that the pledge against genocide has failed. The consequences of inaction and indifference has decimated a large population of ethnic groups like the Jewish population during the Holocaust; moreover, the value of acting out against oppression and tyranny can prevent violence and evince human morality. The consequences of inaction has decimated ethnic minorities, but how did these consequences affect ethnic groups?
Galileo was imprisoned for his belief in the Copernican theory. Even though this theory is true, the Church was enraged of him publishing a book and trying to spread the word of this theory. Galileo displayed many acts of moral courage. These acts demonstrate a connection between the Holocaust and Galileo’s acts of moral courage. The personal impact of these events have been apparent to me.
Thomas Merton, in his novel Raids on the Unspeakable, inserts a chapter of meditation in memory of Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi who was one of the main architects of the holocaust. Even though Eichmann oversaw the mass murder of innocents, psychiatrists pronounced him perfectly sane, a verdict that haunts Merton. He believes that sanity is a religious notion, a Christian notion, used only in relation to those who practice Christian faith. Merton suggests that we have no business to equate “sanity with Christianity,” (Merton) and doing so would perhaps corrupt the relationship between the two. Although, Merton obviously understands the importance of forgiveness and cherishes this concept, because he has been quoted saying that “We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven.
Christianity is under attack not only by those within Christianity, but also by those in cults and other faiths. C.S. Lewis, who was one of the best-known apologists of the 20th century, said, To be ignorant and simple now--not to be able to meet the enemies on their [1]ground--would be to throw down our weapons, and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered (The Weight of Glory, 50). 2 EXPERIENTIAL APOLOGETICS One form of apologetics is called “Experiential Apologetics”.