by Arisztid on May 23rd, 2008

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For those whose religious groups were targeted in the Holocaust, how did the Holocaust affect your opinion of your faith? I am talking about ALL religious groups, not just the Jews (JW's, etc)

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  • by singwell-is off researching a lot on May 23rd, 2008

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    I can write from the other perspective. Many of the State churches were silent about the Holocaust, and this makes me ashamed to the max of these people who claimed to share the same faith as me, but permitted this to happen by their silence.
    However, I also know that, within their ranks, there were considerable numbers of individual pastors and laity who risked their lives to save people and ended up executed or in the camps themselves
    eg Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Protestant)
    Maximilian Kolbe (Catholic)
    Corrie, Betsy and Caspar Ten Boom (Protestants)
    Edith Stein (Catholic http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Oct1998/feature2.asp)

    Laszlo Michnay (Protestant Seventh Day Adventist news.adventist.org/data/2004/1094582956/index.html.en )

    Chiune Sugihara (Orthodox under consul for Japan in Latvia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune)

    Sadly, the numbers of these were small, unless more died that are not recorded, which is possible. (It is estimated that 137 000 Christians were in Auschwitz.)

    Which only reinforces the Scriptural teaching that Jesus said "Not everyone who comes to me crying 'Lord, Lord!" will enter the kingdom of heaven, only those who do the will of my Father who is in heaven."

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