Holocaust was a systematic elimination in which Adolf’s Hitler’s Nazi regime and its collaborators murdered approximately six million Jews as part of the “Final Solution”, the nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe and another five million non jewish victims which took place throughout Nazi Germany and German occupied territories. From 1914 to 1945, in history it is the largest methodically killing of Jews, and acts of oppression, killings of various ethnic and political group in Europe were carried out by the Nazis. Every member of Germany’s government was involved in the management of carrying out the genocide during the Third Reich. Non jewish victims included of homosexuals, communists and the disabled. Many of these victims died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment . In the last months of the war, Nazi guards moved prisoners by trained or forced marches in order to avoid the Allied liberation of big numbers of prisoners. As allied forces transitioned across Europe in a series of offensives against Germany, they began to experience and setting free concentration camp prisoners. On May 7,1945, the day the Geramy armed forces had surrendered unconditionally to the allied forces and the marches ended on that day too. (Holocaust Encyclopedia, 2015)

In the philosophy of religion, the problem of evil is the question of how to reconcile the existence of evil with that of God who is all powerful, all knowing and all good. An argument from evil attempts to show that the co existence of God is more than unlikely and attempts to show contraction which is know as Theodicy.(Tooley, 2015). Jews views Nazi’s regime as a great evil and Adolf doesn't have the right to murders jew as they are viewed as inferior beings in the Nazi. Jews interpret these happenings are just not possible, but given their worldview which includes belief that God exist, they are impossible. Horrendous evil would not occur by God, if he exist, is omnipotent and omnibenevolent. Thus, assuming such a God exists, it is not possible for Nazis to conduct such horrible acts. But, since Nazi’s cruelty is undeniable, Jews are forced to reform there worldviews and conclude that God doesn't exist. Jew’s argument is a form of the problem of evil. It would be an example of the logical problem of moral evil that philosophers would call Jew’s argument. The problem suggests that the existence of moral evil is evil caused by human action and is logically unaligned with God’s existence. (Irwin and johnson, 2010).

Premise 1: If God exists, given that he is omnipotent and omnibenevolent, he would not allow Nazi Soldiers to kill millions of Jews. Premise 2 : But now that Nazi soldiers have killed millions of Jews, Nazi soldiers asserting their superiority. Conclusion: Therefore, God does not exist. The argument is valid if its premises are true and its conclusion is true.I In order to reject the argument must present a good reason to prove that either premise 1 or 2 is false. The following i will be discussing some arguments to the problem of evil.

A reasonable theodicy for moral evil is know as the “Free Will defence” (Mitchell, 1971). The free will defence is the argument that as moral evil results from the choices of free moral agents its existence is consistent with the existence of God. The contention lives up to expectations in two ways. Initially, it holds that as moral evil is brought on by the decisions of free moral agents, God is not in charge of moral evil. Furthermore, it holds that as it is more imperative that free moral agents do exist than it is that ethical evil does not exist, God did well in making such specialists despite the fact that he realized that they may decide to mishandle their freedom. For example the holocaust is a moral evil, it was perpetrated by human agents in which Hitler and his collaborators chose to murder millions .Their acts were acts of free will.

A second counter to the argument from moral evil makes utilization of a standards' portion of the ethical contention for God's presence. On the off chance that God does not exist, this counter goes, then there would be no ethical principles; everything would be allowed. If that that were the situation, however, then there could be no ethical abhorrence, for there would be no ethical laws that could be abused. The way that ethical malevolence exists, then, a long way from negating the presence of God, really demonstrates it. Pretty much as the theist faces the issue of accommodating the presence of malevolence with the presence of God, the issue of evil, then, so the atheist faces the issue of accommodating the presence of morality with the non-presence of God, the problem of morality.

The moral and natural evil problem is attempted to be solve by John Hick’s soul making theodicy ( Irwin and Johnson, 2010). John Hick attempts to claim of God’s existence with abundance of evil around us that moral and natural evil is allowed to exist today is because God’s wants individuals to develop character. (Hick, 1977) A developed perfected characters have better actions than those of given perfect characters. Therefore, God allows evil to exist so that we may develop better characters in the future which can be completed by reacting to evil and the general presence of first order evil is justified. For example Sir Nicholas Winton rescued and accommodated 669 jewish children that were bound to die (White ,2015).Winton was able to showcase and develop his characters in the face of evil which is to rescue jewish children that couldn not be done if there were not any evil for him to respond to, therefore he is able to do good. However there is a problem with the amount of evil present in the world as God could have created just as much good with less evil than we may have now. In conclusion, there is no real solution to the problem of evil or why it exists but we can find answers or defences such as free will defence theodicy that may be relevant to us in encountering evil. (1001 words)
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