RE: One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window.
November 9, 2017 at 2:14 pm
(November 9, 2017 at 10:50 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: He's probably in Hell for the hatred he had in his heart and for all the heinous, evil things he had done to millions of innocent people. But I'm sure I didn't need to say that.
I just want to be clear on what we're saying here.
The Holocaust, the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, was more Himmler's baby than Hitler's, while actualised by Heydrich. Hitler originally wanted the Jews forcibly removed from German controlled areas. As executive authority in that regime, was it more or less 'evil' to command such atrocities, or to allow them in the knowledge that he had the power to prevent them?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'