Drich,
My husband's mother was born in Vienna, Austria. Her parents sent her oldest sister(only ten) to England and fled with my year old, future mother-in-law. When they reached the United States, some officials tried to talk my poor grandmother-in-law into giving up her baby for adoption. They lost a large portion of their family to the Nazis. Sometimes, it is difficult to comprehend that if they had waited in Austria, my husband would not exist.
I am going to guess that your statements are because you aren't really seeing the victims of the Holocaust as humans. Six million is a large, almost incomprehensible number and that is just the number of Jewish people who died. There were also other groups that suffered and died, not to mention the many soldiers who gave their lives and the families who had to exist without a loved one.
There is someone in your life that you would die to protect. Maybe it is a child, your mother, a spouse, but the idea that this person would suffer is like a kick in the gut to you. Now imagine that this person is stripped and marched into gas chambers to die terrified, or that they slowly starve to death in front of your eyes. Worse, you survive and have to create a new life after the war. If you have ever really loved someone, you would realize that the land of Israel is not worth the price of that one life.
When I was a Christian, I could not engage myself in putting myself so fully into the shoes of another person. Doing so would have shaken my view that god was just and always right. Like you, the need to prove that my god was right made me hold some vile and disgusting views.
My husband's mother was born in Vienna, Austria. Her parents sent her oldest sister(only ten) to England and fled with my year old, future mother-in-law. When they reached the United States, some officials tried to talk my poor grandmother-in-law into giving up her baby for adoption. They lost a large portion of their family to the Nazis. Sometimes, it is difficult to comprehend that if they had waited in Austria, my husband would not exist.
I am going to guess that your statements are because you aren't really seeing the victims of the Holocaust as humans. Six million is a large, almost incomprehensible number and that is just the number of Jewish people who died. There were also other groups that suffered and died, not to mention the many soldiers who gave their lives and the families who had to exist without a loved one.
There is someone in your life that you would die to protect. Maybe it is a child, your mother, a spouse, but the idea that this person would suffer is like a kick in the gut to you. Now imagine that this person is stripped and marched into gas chambers to die terrified, or that they slowly starve to death in front of your eyes. Worse, you survive and have to create a new life after the war. If you have ever really loved someone, you would realize that the land of Israel is not worth the price of that one life.
When I was a Christian, I could not engage myself in putting myself so fully into the shoes of another person. Doing so would have shaken my view that god was just and always right. Like you, the need to prove that my god was right made me hold some vile and disgusting views.
