“The reason the rainbow is closer to my heart than the Flood that was World War II is that the people of Le Chambon helped without harming, saved lives without torturing and destroying other lives. This is why the rainbow gives me unsullied joy and necessary and useful killing does not.”477 As this Jewish philosopher ends these reflections, he feels compelled to say, after living with this story for almost twenty years, that he knew with “all certainty that Trocmé’s belief in God was at the center of the rescue efforts of the village.”478 And what is obvious as one reads this story is that God
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