The Limitation of Theodicy and Praxis for Protesting Evil in a Post-Holocaust Era
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Throughout history, there have been evil and systemic sins carried out by Christian nations or Christians, including the Crusades, the conquest of America by the Spaniards, mission histories with the invasion of Western imperialism, and the Holocaust of the twentieth century. We also are witnessing the various cases of moral and systemic evil such as racial, sexual, and economic oppression in the twenty-first century. Christian theodicy’s impotence to act against the problem of evil was nowhere more apparent than it was in the gas chambers and the ovens of the Nazi death camps. The Holocaust was one of the most desperate expressions of human evil that we have witnessed. Moreover, the Nazis perpetrated their crimes in Christian Germany, and the rest of the Christian nations ignored it until it made them too uncomfortable. The Holocaust demonstrates us what an incompetent theory Christian theodicy is. The objective of this article is to suggest a way in which we can reduce evil and seek justice in a post-Holocaust era. For this goal, theological and philosophical discourses on the origin of evil and God will be explored, and their implications will be analyzed. Then, I will examine the Nazi Ideology with the aid of James Waller’s survey on how ordinary German people could join the oppression against the Jews. Finally, I will propose ways in which we can engage in the pursuit of protesting and reducing evil in our world today.
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Throughout history, there have been evil and systemic sins carried out by Christian nations or Christians, including the Crusades, the conquest of America by the Spaniards, mission histories with the invasion of Western imperialism, and the Holocaust of the twentieth century. We also are witnessing the various cases of moral and systemic evil such as racial, sexual, and economic oppression in the twenty-first century. Christian theodicy’s impotence to act against the problem of evil was nowhere more apparent than it was in the gas chambers and the ovens of the Nazi death camps. The Holocaust was one of the most desperate expressions of human evil that we have witnessed. Moreover, the Nazis perpetrated their crimes in Christian Germany, and the rest of the Christian nations ignored it until it made them too uncomfortable. The Holocaust demonstrates us what an incompetent theory Christian theodicy is. The objective of this article is to suggest a way in which we can reduce evil and seek justice in a post-Holocaust era. For this goal, theological and philosophical discourses on the origin of evil and God will be explored, and their implications will be analyzed. Then, I will examine the Nazi Ideology with the aid of James Waller’s survey on how ordinary German people could join the oppression against the Jews. Finally, I will propose ways in which we can engage in the pursuit of protesting and reducing evil in our world today.
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