An Observation Everyone Should Make.

Dialectic Journal #2 for Night, by Elie Wiesel

"Yes, man is very stong, greater than God. When You were decieved by Adam and Eve, You drove them out of Paradise. When Noah's generation displeased You, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom no longer found favor in Your eyes, You made the sky rain down fire and sulphur. But these men here, whom You have betrayed, whom You have allowed to be tortured, butchered, gassed, burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!"

Through the old Testament, God can seem even more sinister than man (which is why Wiesel must have said that man was greater). And then, during World War Two, there is nothing that the Jews even did wrong! Even if there is such thing as the Justice of God, then why is the "punishment" on the Jews instead of the Nazis? Something here isn't right. Is it true that God is love? If he is, then he can't be fear as well! You cant be good AND evil! The Jews are praising God while all of these things are happening! If I believed that God was doing this to the Jews, I would find no reason to believe in him. WWII looks like Hell on Earth, and Elie Wiesel's point here is a very strong and important one. I believe that everyone should seek the answer to this statement.