Back when I was a teen, I was stupidly wasting time on origin stories. So, I was asking questions about evolution and creation as if the choice were binary. Eventually, the creationist got tired of my questions and asked, “What do you want to believe?”
I can definitely understand why people want to believe in a creator and an afterlife. People like believing their enemies will be punished and their good behavior rewarded. People like believing there is a powerful supernatural being or beings who personally takes an interest in them and their well-being. And most importantly, people love the idea of living forever in paradise.
And when the question was posed to me, that is definitely what I wanted to believe. So, unlike Atheists, I do sympathize with those who believe in God, gods, or whatever. Where Atheists generally come into being due to a great hatred of a religion or religions, that is not the case for myself. For me the weight of evidence became so great I can’t believe even if I wanted to.
I chose denial of the Holocaust to be the most important belief of Skeptical Deism primarily to exclude those Communists and Atheists. They’re not interested in what reality is, they are interested in ridiculing and obtaining power over others. And this is why most Atheists and Communists wholeheartedly force others to believe in the fantasy of the Holocaust with threats of imprisonment, impoverishment, and exclusion.
Most people don’t want to believe in the Holocaust – they are forced to. Many places on the planet don’t even allow the choice. Why would someone want to believe that an enlightened non-Communist society decided for no good reason to murder people on an industrialized scale?