I was listening to a radio documentary yesterday on the Japanese survivors of these bombings, and how they are culturally reluctant to speak about it.
I came across the fascinating story of George Zabelka, who was a military chaplain in 1945 for the 509th Composite Group on Tinian Island (the atomic bomb crew), and his struggle thereafter to reconcile the principles of the gospel with the way he had been conditioned to think.
One relevant quote to the bombings that stood out for me:
“To fail to speak to the utter moral corruption of the mass destruction of civilians was to fail as a Christian and as a priest. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened in and to a world and a Christian church that had asked for it - that had prepared the moral consciousness of humanity to do and to justify the unthinkable.”
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Rising Sun Of A New Age
On August 6, 1945 at 8:15 AM. An Aircraft named the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb called “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima. It was a warm summer morning, with the sun just above the horizon. Then out of nowhere a new sun appeared o…
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