Holocaust Denial

[Rev. Rye]

I sort of liked the bit about him telling the Jews not to worry about the ovens of the camps, but to instead worry about the eternal oven, i.e Hell.

We can all get a bit sour about what people did to us in the past, but the important thing is to pray to God and serve Him, or else pay the ultimate price

So, is God supposed to be the bad guy in this scenario? Because even the totures of Auschwitz had an end, whether it's because they died in the camps, or if through luck of the draw they survived to the liberations, or if they were haunted by the memories of what went on and developed PTSD that could only be truly stopped by the sweet release of death (Taddeusz Borowski and Primo Levi come to mind). The fires of Hell, if I recall my theology correctly, don't.

Also, on that note, I have to point out how curious it is that you, a self-proclaimed Catholic, still seem to believe in a literal Hell. I spent my high school in a Catholic boy's school, and we had lots of teachers, but even the most strictly religious tend to consider Hell a bit different from the classical model. In fact, their conception seems closer to this episode of The Twilight Zone:





In Catechismic terms:

"The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, ‘eternal fire.’ The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs"

It's interesting that you still hold on to the traditional view even as the Church itself has moved away from it. 

Overall, any claim to morality seems to be quite hollow when you claim that you are capable than worse cruelty than Hitler himself.

I'm beginning to get tired of trying to give you the benefit of the doubt.