Short, short post from short, short person (ok not really)

[theoxymoronic]

1. Why did God allow the Holocaust to happen? This is along the same lines of why does God allow suffering and diseases but I guess it's also different because this is a deliberate, planned extermination of an entire body of people. Maybe it's about the concepts of giving Man free will and having consequences reaped; Hitler chose to execute his

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[thirtytwo__]

Isn't killing wrong, regardless of the reasons and regardless of the legitimacy of the reasons?

my take on that would be yes, at first, but i realise that i believe in capital punishment and i believe in self-defense as manslaughter etc etc. so that kind of freaks me out, that i don't think killing is wrong all the time.

[theoxymoronic]

Yeah I know what you mean! And I don't really know what my stand is, either. ):

I also want to find out what God's take on that is.

[sepulchralice]

I really need to attend theology classes and bible studies.
ME TOOOOO

But personally I think we sin because God gave us free will, and so God doesn't stop us because of that. So if like, I can lie to you as long as I feel like doing so, then I guess the Holocaust can happen because somebody felt justified in acting that way. Argh maybe my comparison is faulty, idk.

And like... ugh I have a whole load of unsorted thoughts about why God allows suffering to happen, but I'm really not sure. *is incoherent* :/