Thursday, February 12, 2009

God=Hitler?

5 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them." 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

9 This is the account of Noah.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.

I hope other people see this connection, but from what I can understand:

God is pissed off at the world.
They aren't following his belief system, his religion.
He needs to do something about it to rid the world of the evildoers.
Noah is the only one who is favorable in his eyes.

Now does anyone see this connection?

Hitler is pissed off at the Jews.
They don't follow his belief system, what he stands for.
He wants to do something about it to rid the world of the Jews forever.
Nazis are the only one favorable in his eyes.

What do they both decide to do about it? Obviously, God wouldn't stoop so low as to killing off everyone who is "wrong" in his eyes, like Hitler would. This God is benevolent right? Hitler was just a crazy, insane, murder really. God couldn't be like him.

Oh wait, yeah he is.

7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air..."

So Hitler said, "I will wipe out the Jews, who do not follow me, from the face of the earth—men and women, and babies, and all the Jews alive."

In America, genocide is punishable by law, either death or life imprisonment. That's pretty heavy, I think. The two highest punishments possible for genocide. According to the Prevent Genocide Convention held in 1948 (how ironic, right after Hitler's reign in WWII), genocide is defined as:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth..."

I think that falls under (a), (b), and (c), possibly (e) as violations and considered genocide. Had God lived in America, he'd be put to death for this, or possibly just life imprisonment. I don't know about you, but attempting (and succeeding) in killing off 99.999% of the human/animal population, could be qualified as punishable by death.

To most people, Hitler is evil, malicious, and a cold-blooded killer. He committed mass genocide.

To most people, God is benevolent, omniscient, and all-powerful. He also committed mass genocide. Somehow, the two should be much, much similar in terms of how they are described.

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