God, the Holocaust and Etty Hillesum

Christine theology isn’t designed to stand up to rational scrutiny.

The German philosopher Theodor Adorno stated the famous phrase, "No poetry after Auschwitz." This is often misinterpreted. What he meant was that the Holocaust had shown the human experiment had failed, and failed miserably. The human experiment being the development of "civilised" mankind from the beginning of the Enlightenment through to the (his) modern era. The Enlightenment, through hundreds of years, ushered in scientific discovery, rational thought, a move away from ancient superstition and magic.

By 1940 it was thought the civilised world had reached its apotheosis. We had science, medicine, philosophy, art, literature - everything that one would assume necessary for an egalitarian society to thrive. Germany was at the forefront of this experiment. Germany had art, science and industry, it had mastered the latest technology. But instead of an egalitarian society, it mutated into Nazism, global war and turned its technological advancement towards genocide. Adorno suggested that the very same post-Enlightenment culture that had produced such astounding leaps in knowledge, technology and art had also produced the Holocaust. In short, the experiment had failed and the ENTIRE culture that spawned it had also failed (so no more poetry (culture) after Auschwitz). This is why the Holocaust is held up as the absolute nadir of civilisation - because the culture that perpetrated it was thought to be the finest mankind was capable of being.

If God exists, He knew this and watched the entire horror unfold. He saw the failure of the human experiment and allowed it to take its natural course towards torture, mass murder and genocide.

Draw your own conclusions as to what that might mean.

[quote]One rather shocking question is why did God let the Holocaust happen.[/quote]

God doesn't steer the behavior of people.
That's why you didn't get that bike Christmas 1970.

According to the bible (the white mans King James version), god turned a woman into a pillar of salt, struck people dead, and drowned mankind in a flood. So he had power to intervene in the Holocaust (as well as all the other horrors in history) and evidently chose to sit and watch.

I have read and viewed documentaries where survivors, who were very devout, ask the question: 'Where was god? Why did he not stop this?' etc. Many became atheists or agnostics. Who could blame them?

It is enough to make you consider, is god an antisemite?

...well, when Jews crucified God didn’t they curse themselves by saying .... “His blood be upon us and upon our children.” 🤔🤔🤔 They kinda asked for it themselves in a way maybe

Of course the victims who went through it are right to question God. But I put more emphasis on actual understanding of what happened. God must have a hands-off approach. And there are stories of 'miracles' happening on an individual level during those events one of which was related to me by the son of a Holocaust survivor.

People don't want explanations from yet another apologist. That want to hear GOD's excuse. Not yours. GOD's!
Thing is he doesn't explain himself because there is no possible excuse. There is nothing he can EVER do to compensate for his crimes. He is evil itself. And anyone that not only doesn't see that but continues to worship and even love such a being is evil as well. Because either through action or inaction they show their approval of rape, genocide, pedophilia, etc...

Meanwhile, God was all...