Dr. Craig earlier mentioned Hitler, Auschwitz, and Dachau in his apologetics book, consider this response: Germany was a Christian nation—the heart of the Lutheran Protestant Reformation! How could a Christian people allow these evil deeds to happen and even be his willing executioners? How? The Holocaust and the horrible things done to millions of Jews and various minorities is more a problem for the Christian ethic, because it was a more or less Christian nation that did these horrible deeds.
How many times does this get repeated and it never sinks in ? It wasn't just Germany but whole of Europe, France , Italy , Spain & Russia at constant wars already for centuries. How this ignored is beyond the pale...
All christians are the same for one argument for all good & selectively in the next we've now moved from the tenant that there are good Christians & bad ones . How convenient to be able to ignore the facts so well , how autistically relativistic & simple minded to not see the "dellusion of One God" that in reality always turns out to be so many . (Or put the most rational & succint way , an ongoing perpetual "God Dellusion" .
It all fits into the framework of the evolutionary order one can assume, everyman needing a "mentor" if he is to survive , the same applys to a group and the "idea" of "God" acts as a nexus for the tribe's wisdom & knowledge base as well as centralizing authority & act as a divine guide/referee . How amazing it is that there is no difference between the desire of a tribe to evolve ancient witch doctors to interpret signs & mediate the spirits & the messiah/prophets later down the road .
Just look at the two messiahs we have on this board ....so radiant like the Sun, so filled with awe inspired wisdom of the centuries . |
