If we were Israelite men during those times, would we sin by disobeying God's command to commit such violence?

As an Israelite man during that time, would you be willing to plunge a sword through an infant, at God's command?

Sparing the child, a mortal sin?

Jones congratulates the movie maker, Christopher Nolan, for putting front and centre the thesis that the Manhattan Project was first and foremost a Jєωιѕн project. Robert Oppenheimer was the team leader of the Los Alamos group that produced the original A-bombs. Prof. Jones makes a parallel between what happened in 1945, when the US Armed Forces obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the new type of weapon, and what is going on now…As Prof. Jones sees it, the large Jєωιѕн contingent currently dominating the foreign policy apparatus of the United States seems to mean business in pushing forward the possibility of a US-driven nuclear confrontation with China and Russia. In trying to show the connections between many historical and contemporary dots, the commentator expresses the view that The h0Ɩ0cαųst has provided the dominant narrative defining much about the order and disorder engulfing us. As Jones sees it, the US Empire, which became a worldwide infrastructure of imperial power after 1945, grew up on the foundations of The h0Ɩ0cαųst narrative.

At 11:02 am, during Thursday morning mass, hundreds of Nagasaki Christians were boiled, evaporated, carbonized or otherwise disappeared in a scorching, radioactive fireball that exploded 500 meters above the cathedral. The black rain that soon came down from the mushroom cloud contained the mingled cellular remains of many Nagasaki Shintoists, Buddhists and Christians. The theological implications of Nagasaki’s Black Rain surely should boggle the minds of theologians of all denominations. Most Nagasaki Christians did not survive the blast. 6,000 of them died instantly, including all who were at confession that morning. Of the 12,000 church members, 8,500 of them eventually died as a result of the bomb. Many of the others were seriously sickened with a highly lethal entirely new disease: radiation sickness.

The usage came about gradually. The lower-case “h0Ɩ0cαųst” has described the violent deaths of large groups of people probably since the 18th century, according the Oxford English Dictionary. Before World War II, the word was used by Winston Churchill and others to refer to the genocide of Armenians during World War I. In 1933, “h0Ɩ0cαųst” was first associated with the nαzιs after a major book burning. And after Word War II, the “Final Solution” was often called a h0Ɩ0cαųst. By the 1960s, according to the Jєωιѕн Magazine, it became common to refer to the nαzι genocide of Jєωs as “The h0Ɩ0cαųst.”

Still, the magnitude and uniqueness of this catastrophic event in Jєωιѕн history transcends the meaning of words and defies understanding. Yes, many of nαzι’s victims (sic) were consumed wholly by flame. But was this some sort of divine retribution for the sins of a nation? “I wouldn’t want to know the God who sacrificed these people,” (h0Ɩ0cαųst Studies professor Michael) Berenbaum said.