God Damn it, I Don't Even Know

[attackfish]

I swear, the next time a Christian tries to compare the Holocaust to the death of Jesus, I may just start screaming.  I mean what the hell?  How is that even a thing you say to someone?  And yes, this is not the first time I have heard this one.   God fucking damn.

Comments

[floranna.livejournal.com]

What?

Yes, Jesus did die in a horrible way but it DOES NOT compare to the suffering of millions of jews during or before holocaust.

Dungeonwriter said it better.

*seethes*

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I think aside from the sheer insult of comparing the deaths of millions of people, a scale that it is impossible for a human being to truly grasp, to the death of one person, which forget being Jewish, offends me as a human being, there is the assumption that Judaism is about the Holocaust in the same way Christianity is about the death of Jesus. The Holocaust was not an experience of the Jewish faith, but of the Jewish people. It's not a part of Jewish religious life and practice, except in the way we try to understand such a tragedy, honor the dead, and support the living. Individual Jewish people may derive some meaning from their own experience with the Holocaust, but for many of us devout Jews, there is only the raw fact that millions upon millions of people were murdered for no reason at all.

There's also the impression I get from some Christians that in a Christian context, the Holocaust "saved" the Jews the way the death of Jesus saved the Christians. There aren't enough nos in the English language to express how despicable that idea is.