| While I don't necessarily subscribe to the same reasoning, I think I can suss out the reasoning that leads to this comment. If you take faith because God kept you alive during the war as a foundation, a few conclusions can be drawn. 1) God did not want you to die in the war. Why else would surviving be proof of God? 2) God either wanted other people to die in the war, or having no preference either way for them at that point, let them die in the war. 3) God therefore has a preference for you over those that died, even if it's only to fulfill a future purpose. I personally prefer not to make assumptions about what someone was thinking (but what they could have been thinking is another matter), but doing so at this level seems more a matter of poor assumptions and rigor to me than hate. In any case, a simple explanation of what is wrong with their reasoning along with the accusation of hate is warranted. Keep in mind, the poster may truthfully be offended by these types of remarks, just as you ostensibly are by their response. If you castigate them for their actions without even attempting to understand their reasoning, that makes you guilty of exactly the same thing you accuse them of in this instance. |
I also think it's in very bad taste to speculate on why someone chose specific coping mechanisms to live with themselves after being one of the few to survive a horrific ordeal.
My primary complaint is not that someone said something like this, but that it was acceptable enough to everyone else in the community that it ended up one of the very first posts in the discussion.
Unfortunately, I don't have time to respond more fully; I didn't realize this would be so controversial.