An Overview of Holomania
by Matt Giwer, © 2011 [July]

Having had nearly two decades of skeptical inquiry into the holy holocaust several thing have become obvious.

  1. The holohuggers have done an incredibly piss poor job of documenting their claims to the skeptical observer.
  2. The holohuggers defend the documented, the credible, the plausible, the implausible and the flat out impossible with equal fanaticism.
  3. The holohuggers respond to any and all critical comment with hysteria.
Because of these things anyone who questions the holohugger belief in their holy holocaust is on supremely solid grounds.

1. The piss poor job
A reasonable person would expect in the 65 plus years since 1945, well over half a century, there would be a few books strictly documenting the facts in the same manner as any other major event of the war. One would also expect these few books to be the heavily referenced sources in all of the other books. One would expect these other books to be expansions upon the few documentary books.

There is nothing of the sort. But there are hysterical claims that they do exist. All we find are books written decades after the event trying to find ways to justify the hysterical claims.

In fact we find in the holohugger discussion of the literature an insistence that it has to be impossible to understand, that is has to be beyond human comprehension. That is terminally stupid.

2. Defending the impossible
Concentration camps are documented. Curing leukemia by transplanting a section of thigh bone is flat out impossible. Yet both are defended as absolute truth.

I have come across dozens of examples of impossible things which, when I point out they are impossible, holohuggers start raving.

An even more obvious class of impossible things. When two people describe the same event in mutually exclusive ways it is impossible for both to be true. Yet observe that only one can be true and the holohuggers get hysterical.

Perhaps they are legitimately concerned that if one is identified as a lie there is a legitimate possibility both are lies. Perhaps there is a legitimate concern that if some are identified as lies then there are other lies. Problem is this is only legitimate if one is concerned with preserving lies instead of discovering the facts.

3. Hysteria!
The hysteria is incredible. It is hissy fit stuff. "You won't believe it happened because you want it to happen again." "If you don't believe it will happen again." "If you don't believe you hate Jews."

This is superstitious crap right out of the worst of the Dark Ages right up there with "If you don't believe in the Virgin Mary you are summoning the Devil, bringing on plagues, causing famines, turning people into newts." This is not the response of rational people.


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