If I were to hold God as an overwhelming force for good, I
cannot but recognize his responsibility for the Holocaust. It is not that the
infant who slips from his mothers’ hand is less a seemingly innocent victim.
Rather the difference lies in the mass murder that ultimately cannot be
philosophically laid to rest under the rubric of inexplicability. It, The
Holocaust, is not without meaning. It makes a mockery of the Passover service
and the tale of miracles, dessert wanderings and ultimate divine intervention.
I cannot negotiate away the killing of 6 million under the
ever present thoughtful care of an All Mighty. If I am to be distracted by the
possibility that we are given free
choice, I must discount God. He/she/it are rendered irrelevant to mans’
journey, a mere spectator, or a hallucination.
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