Abe tempts God’s vengeance

The above headline is from an article published in the JoongAng Ilbo  by Kim Jin whose an editorial writer for the afore mentioned newspaper.  

God often borrows the hand of a human to punish the evil deeds of men. The cruelest form of punishment would be a full-scale air strike against crimes against humanity. We all remember some of the most devastating raids in history. In February 1945, as World War II was nearing its end, Dresden was destroyed by fire. In the months that followed, Tokyo was carpet bombed and atomic bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Yes, in God's busy schedule he or she reached out to the American's and other allied forces and giving them specific instructions  told them: firebomb Dresden a city of no military importance followed  by giving full throated approvable to drop the atomic bomb on two Japanese cities killing several hundred thousand people all in his name.  

These bombings were divine punishment and human retaliation at the same time. The bombing of Dresden was a retaliation for the Jews massacred by Nazi Germany. Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were revenge for the Asians steamrolled by Japan’s militaristic nationalism, especially the “Maruta,” the human beings used in experiment by a covert biological warfare research team in China called Unit 731. The revenges resulted in very different outcomes. Germany completely changed its national spirit and was reborn as a free and progressive state. Japan, on the other hand, did not turn its back on its past misdeeds.

  Does anyone but the most strident Japanese nationalist deny that these atrocities took place and that those who ordered them were put and trial and found guilty of war crimes?  Of course they don't.

The authors attitude is reminiscent of  American evangelicals who view God as the smiter  of all the ideals and beliefs they view as evil without exception.