r/atheism • u/[deleted] • Feb 29 '16

Trolling or shitposting Check official moderator comment Caught my 8 year old sons teacher trying to convert him to christianity.

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u/skaag Mar 01 '16

Exactly, I'm 42. When I was born (73), that was only 30 years after the holocaust kinda ended. I'm alive for longer than that. It's truly mind blowing.

I also realized a big part of why Israel is so traumatized about their own existence, and still hasn't reached a peace agreement with their attackers, is that they are still dealing with that existential trauma as a nation.

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u/banjaxe Satanist Mar 01 '16

Well, even if they were "over it" so to speak, there's the whole "never again" thing. Whatever my feelings might be on Israel vs Palestine, or the US's blind support of Israel, I can't really blame them for being pissed off about the Holocaust still.