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To: Yashcheritsiy
I have a neighbor that is an atheist. He did live through Nazi occupation. Therefore, for him, God doesn't exist.

100% emotional reaction of a child under horrible circumstances, and nothing rational or thoughtful about it.

It's common. I pray for them.

/johnny

12 posted on 04/26/2012 8:04:16 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Perhaps because he was alive at the end of the Nazi occupation was because God does exist and was protecting him, giving him the will to survive, inspiring others to help him survive. Do you know if he has ever considered that?

And then there is the excellent book “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl


15 posted on 04/26/2012 8:12:42 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Well, that’s the thing about people. Two people can go through the same traumatic event, and one person winds up saying “there is no God” and the other winds up finding God.

There are people who did find God going through the holocaust. There are soldiers who liberated those camps who found God through those experiences. Same with 9-11.


28 posted on 04/26/2012 8:25:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Funny how God always gets the blame for bad things, but never the credit for good things.

It’s rare to see people thanking God for allowing man to have the knowledge and ability to, say, cure smallpox or figure out how to chlorinate water so that people don’t die from typhus by the thousands. But, when man does something bad, like the Holocaust, suddenly it’s all completely, 100% God’s fault, with no real culpability on the part of man himself.


94 posted on 04/27/2012 5:50:49 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Anybody but Obama and Romney)
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