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Anne Frank's father, Otto, visits the attic where they hid from the Germans in World War II. He stands alone as he is the only member of his family to have survived the Holocaust, 1960. (files.catbox.moe)
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Photographer: Arnold Newman

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 57 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Stories like this are why I'm absolutely convinced that if God does exist, they're the kind of guy that likes to burn ants with a magnifying glass.

I am so sad for him.

[–] ulkesh@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yep, if a god exists, they're the biggest piece of shit ever to have existed.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only charitable explanation I have for god is that the conditions for life on earth are just a side effect of whatever god was trying to do in another part of the universe entirely.
This galaxy isn’t full of god’s chosen. Merely the forgotten or never intended.

Hell, there’s a theory that the universe we see is actually the inside of a black hole. (It’s not a super widely accepted theory, mind you.) I could accept it as god has already discarded us.

If I believed in the existence of ‘god,’ anyway.

[–] ulkesh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I suppose it’s all possible, but since there is no evidence to support such claims even if only a thought experiment, I will be continuing my current belief that no god exists or ever has existed.

[–] Blubber28@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

"If there is a god, he will have to beg for my forgiveness"

This sentence was found carved into a wall in one of the sheds in a concentration camp.