Religious thinking must<\/b> have a solution for any problem, especially one that puts the religious thinking itself in risk. Hence, when many millions of Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, including some million innocent children – there must<\/b> have been a good religious reason for this.<\/p>\n
Thus the great minds of religious thinking came up with a good reason: These children were reincarnations of previous sinners.<\/p>\n
— * — * —<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n In a way, this is a case of Holocaust denial. It clears Hitler and the Nazis: After all they just helped implementing a divine task. Yet it demonstrates how you strengthen a fragile house of card… by adding more crooked cards: Murdering in torture a million innocent kids doesn’t fit the religious thinking? So let’s invent some “reincarnation” patent and declare that those poor kids were “souls of ex-sinners”, thus actually “punished”.<\/p>\n As for the very idea of “reincarnation” – scientifically speaking this is of course utter nonsense. What we call “a soul” is the feeling of existence produced by brain activity. No brain activity – no feeling and no “soul”. Furthermore, the Jewish tradition itself has a respectable line of known rabbis opposing this idea.<\/p>\n — * — * —<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n But just for the sake of the discussion, let’s assume for a moment that “reincarnation” is real, and those children were indeed “punished”.<\/p>\n What is a “punishment”? It’s an activity designed to achieve one of the following goals: (1) Deter the person being punished from committing the same things again; (2) Deter others from committing the things done by that person; (3) Cause pleasure to the punishing side.<\/p>\n Given the title of “reincarnation”, goal number 1 is irrelevant. Mainly because those million poor kids knew nothing about the deeds of their “previous incarnation”. Also because their punishment included their killing, which never gave them a chance not to commit the same things again anyway.<\/p>\n So let’s think for a while about goal number 2: Is this your religion? Fulfilling all those orders and commandments because… you are afraid of being punished?? If you say “yes”, then damn you and damn your religion. I wish no part in such a religion, which gives you no real choice. If you say “no”, it leaves us with goal number 3 – a god who seeks pleasure in torturing little children, while they don’t even know why their mother is burnt in front of them.<\/p>\n It is important to emphasize: The god of the religion is supposedly “almighty”. The analogy of a little kid who doesn’t understand the need for punishment – does not apply here. Unlike a human father educating his child, the god of the religion can (if only he wants) achieve the educational goal, without the child suffering and\/or not understanding why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Religious thinking must have a solution for any problem, especially one that puts the religious thinking itself in risk. Hence, when many millions of Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, including some million innocent children – there must have been a good religious reason for this. Thus the great minds of religious thinking came up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,27,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argument-and-preaching","category-god","category-judaism","category-logic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}