Good question, Joey
May 29, 2006Joey Ratzo, former Hitler Youth member and the Vatican’s Prefect of Inquisition, has asked an excellent question (German-born pope laments Holocaust crimes):
Pope Benedict XVI visited the Auschwitz concentration camp as “a son of the German people” Sunday and asked God why he remained silent during the “unprecedented mass crimes” of the Holocaust… “To speak in this place of horror, in this place where unprecedented mass crimes were committed against God and man, is almost impossible — and it is particularly difficult and troubling for a Christian, for a pope from Germany… In a place like this, words fail; in the end, there can be only a dread silence, a silence which itself is a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?”
Excellent question, Joey. Gold star for you. And while we’re at it: “Why didn’t you tell me not to join the Hitler Youth? And why didn’t you tell Pius to oppose the deportation and slaughter of Jews?” Man, that God is one hands-off deity. It’s almost like He, I dunno, doesn’t really give a shit. Or doesn’t actually exist. You know, like that.
