Sometime back my niece (she’s in 9th grade) and I were having discussion about world war I & II. And all of sudden she asked me if there is/was a God.
I did not expect this question from her. I asked her how do you define God?
To her, God is a supreme power who looks after good over bad.
I did not know what to reply and I did not exactly understand the context.
So I asked her that why she is asking about God when we’are discussing history here.
To this, she tells – “Six million European Jews – over one million Jewish children, two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men, were killed after long inhuman torture.” History is her favorite subject. She was talking about The Holocaust.
She continued “Where was God then? Why did not (s)he listens to prayers of those million people. There were dozens of assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler. (S)he’d have made one of them successful and perhaps some of them would have lived.”
I did not know the answer to her question and till now I do not.
I do not know if I really believe in God anymore.
All I need is a simple answer to a simple question – why God, if (s)he really exists, did not do anything when 6 million people were being tortured & killed.
PS: It's merely questioning existence of God or belief in God, the way we question ourselves; the way we question authorities, the way we questions our teachers and the way we question our loved ones.
I did not expect this question from her. I asked her how do you define God?
To her, God is a supreme power who looks after good over bad.
I did not know what to reply and I did not exactly understand the context.
So I asked her that why she is asking about God when we’are discussing history here.
To this, she tells – “Six million European Jews – over one million Jewish children, two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men, were killed after long inhuman torture.” History is her favorite subject. She was talking about The Holocaust.
She continued “Where was God then? Why did not (s)he listens to prayers of those million people. There were dozens of assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler. (S)he’d have made one of them successful and perhaps some of them would have lived.”
I did not know the answer to her question and till now I do not.
I do not know if I really believe in God anymore.
All I need is a simple answer to a simple question – why God, if (s)he really exists, did not do anything when 6 million people were being tortured & killed.
PS: It's merely questioning existence of God or belief in God, the way we question ourselves; the way we question authorities, the way we questions our teachers and the way we question our loved ones.
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