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Originally Posted by kahljorn
that's true. But is it necessarily evil to be swept along with the evil? What if like hitler and all his friends thought they were doing the right thing and that's what caused the movement in the first place. those people under him were just following orders they didn't want to follow and stuff ;o
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Yes I think good people can def get swept up into by evil. There was a book, shit I forget the name (maybe Ordinary Men?), but it was basically about this normal physician in Germany at the time who simply "got swept up" in all the hysteria and propaganda of the day. He was not evil to begin with, yet he supported evil things and conviently realized later he was the asshole.
I think that eventually, whether it's years later or decades later, one would realize the evil they committed or supported. Obviously not everyone would, as probably a majority die with their beliefs still intact. With all of that said, a vast majority of people know that there is evil. For every Nazi that thought he was doing something good I assure you there was a Jew that knew that he was doing something evil.
Thus how does God come into play into all of this? How would a benevolent and omnipotent God allow such a thing? If it were indeed to lead people or show people a greater good, why all the suffering? Why not just have that programmed in us, for a lack of a better term.