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Greetings!
As I am a student of history I felt compelled to share with yall something I discovered recently which I found very interesting! Regarding Nazi Germany, and Hitler specifically, his interest and fascination with the occult is well known and documented.
The subject of this post is not Hitler however, but one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, the Holocaust. Have you ever wondered though where the phrase holocaust originated? The term is used today as a synonym with genocide, but it has other meanings as well.
1
: a sacrifice (see SACRIFICE entry 1 sense 2) consumed by fire
2
: a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire
a nuclear holocaust
3
a
usually the Holocaust : the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II
Several members of her family died in the Holocaust.
a Holocaust survivor
b
: a mass slaughter of people
especially : GENOCIDE
As we can see the first definition is "a sacrifice consumed by fire". If we dig deeper, we will see this has other applications as well, specifically in the Bible.
Mar 12:33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
In the Greek, the word for whole burnt offering is holokautoma G3646. So what exactly was Hitler doing? Was it really some blatant hatred for Jews that fueled his "final solution", or was there something else going on under the surface? What do yall think?
As I am a student of history I felt compelled to share with yall something I discovered recently which I found very interesting! Regarding Nazi Germany, and Hitler specifically, his interest and fascination with the occult is well known and documented.
Adolf Hitler: Obsessed with the Occult
Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime turned to voodoo science in their drive for supremacy.
www.historynet.com
1
: a sacrifice (see SACRIFICE entry 1 sense 2) consumed by fire
2
: a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire
a nuclear holocaust
3
a
usually the Holocaust : the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II
Several members of her family died in the Holocaust.
a Holocaust survivor
b
: a mass slaughter of people
especially : GENOCIDE
As we can see the first definition is "a sacrifice consumed by fire". If we dig deeper, we will see this has other applications as well, specifically in the Bible.
Mar 12:33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
In the Greek, the word for whole burnt offering is holokautoma G3646. So what exactly was Hitler doing? Was it really some blatant hatred for Jews that fueled his "final solution", or was there something else going on under the surface? What do yall think?