thinking about the Nazi extermination camps, the Soviet "Gulag", and wondering what in human history has been an equivalent good in contrast to these human evils...
"man's inhumanity to man" (from the Robert Burns poem: "Man was made to mourn: A Dirge", 1784) is perhaps more than less understandable (if less than more endurable), but it was the idea which people devolved from Lyell, Darwin, et al, of 'God's and/or nature's inhumanity to man' that people could not, and can not, accept.
and what most humans cannot accept believing in is "'God's' inhumanity to life".
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