We need to talk about one of the most difficult things, God. Christian thought needs a radical new theology, 70 years after the holocaust.
One thing i have found quite shocking is the out moded idea that suffering and illness happen because they sinned and had it brought upon them. We call this victim -blaming.
In Jewish thought, Emmanual Levinas is a useful philosopher who is shaped by the Nazi horror He lived 1906-1995
He said that the justification of suffering is at the heart of all immortality.
Dr Tamra Wright also brought a feminist response to the holocaust, Melissa Raphael - The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Feminist Theology of the Holocaust.
Someone quoted Whitney Houston "what's God got to do with it?" and doesn't see (the late Reform Judaism Chief Rabbi Hugo Gryn) "where was God?" are we asking the wrong question?
Could any of you envisage having this conversation in Poland? The conversations that follow are very depressing. In arts, should we remain silent about it or speak about it?
See also,
Zoe Waxman Writing the Holocaust
Olivia who works for Holocaust Memorial Day Trust says a significant proportion of events are based on rituals such as prayer. We have seen genocides since them which add in to the discussion.
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10 Evil Tactics Hunger Games
I just finished reading the first and third Hunger Games Books. My thoughts.
Hunger Games: Ten Tactics of Cameron's Class Warriors, and how to fight back!
1. Revisionism
"The mayor steps up to the podium and begins to read. It's the same story every year... as our reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games."
2. Violence
"Of course, people keel over from starvation all the time, but I can’t imagine the Peacekeepers murdering a simpleminded child."
3. Game-makers
"Sadly, rules are rules"
4. Divide and rule
"They're holding hands. I want them dead!"
5. Fear (to block out hope)
6. Cue Cards
7. Surveillance
"Being in the woods is rejuvenating.
...unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key."
8. Genetic modification
and nuclear
9. The mass media
10. Elected dictatorship
Hunger Games: Ten Tactics of Cameron's Class Warriors, and how to fight back!
1. Revisionism
"The mayor steps up to the podium and begins to read. It's the same story every year... as our reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games."
2. Violence
"Of course, people keel over from starvation all the time, but I can’t imagine the Peacekeepers murdering a simpleminded child."
3. Game-makers
"Sadly, rules are rules"
4. Divide and rule
"They're holding hands. I want them dead!"
5. Fear (to block out hope)
6. Cue Cards
7. Surveillance
"Being in the woods is rejuvenating.
...unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key."
8. Genetic modification
and nuclear
9. The mass media
10. Elected dictatorship
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