Holocaust Theology

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Holocaust Theology

"God exists, God controls history, then it must be his will that Hitler committed six million Jews to slaughter" Richard Rubenstein is a theologian, his views are that God cannot exist because of the Holocaust. He believes that God cannot exist if so many people died and suffered.

"The very fact that the Holocaust happened, therefor, proves the non existence of God" Rubenstein believes that God, if he did exist would not put all these Jews to suffer and die, if therefor proves God doesn't exist. He believes that God cannot exist due to the very event of the holocaust.

"God is dead, human existence is meaningless" Rubinstein theory of the holocaust shows that God cannot exist. If God doesn't exist then what's the meaning of living? We are therefor on this earth for no meaning. Our life is meaningless, because there is no God.

Emil Frackenheim experienced life in a concentration camp, his views on the holocaust was that to say " no to Hitler is to say yes to god, to say no to God is to say yes to Hitler" Emil Frankenheuim believed believes that we cannot give up our faith