Fit your beliefs around this
There is much to ponder for any sensitive person about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki towards the end of WW2. One aspect (among many others) always leaves me bemused and wondering.
The primary target for the second bomb was Kokura. However, weather conditions were not good for this target and very near the last minute the target was switched to Nagasaki.
There is something about this that I find shocking. It calls into question virtually any belief you care to name. Thousands of "souls" spared, thousands more obliterated in an instant. If the weather had been kinder over Nagasaki, then all would have been different - that is, for those who lived in those cities.
I realise that for some all this will simply confirm the sheer randomness of Reality. "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".
Yet for other reasons, I remain convinced that Reality has significance. But what of "karma"? What of the "love" of God?
The primary target for the second bomb was Kokura. However, weather conditions were not good for this target and very near the last minute the target was switched to Nagasaki.
There is something about this that I find shocking. It calls into question virtually any belief you care to name. Thousands of "souls" spared, thousands more obliterated in an instant. If the weather had been kinder over Nagasaki, then all would have been different - that is, for those who lived in those cities.
I realise that for some all this will simply confirm the sheer randomness of Reality. "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".
Yet for other reasons, I remain convinced that Reality has significance. But what of "karma"? What of the "love" of God?
