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‘Do you know how many people cried out to God at the end in Lubsko, in Birkenau, in Dachau?’ she said. ‘Can you imagine all those voices screaming together, begging for rescue, for mercy, for an end to pain, for the annihilation of their tormentors? And do you know how many of them were answered? Tell me. Speak the number. No? Then let me say it for you: none. There was no answer. There was no mercy. From that, what can we say of God? Either that He does not exist, or He turned away from His own creation, and would not listen to their cries. What have we to fear from a being like that, even if ...more
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I think the same, it’s one people always think, not just about this, but god not helping in general, but I just had a thought… You know how you never know what you’ve got until it’s gone? Or you need to see the horror of something to finally have to change it?…. Thrni guess there’s an argument that the utter horror of ww2 was a wake-up call, as are other things like it, we’re being shown that we have to act, we must act, before it’s too late, & if we don’t?…. Then we see the horror of thst plsyed out, hopefully for it to at some point be enough, for it to be stopped.
A Song of Shadows (Charlie Parker, #13)
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