Night: Part Two

“Where is God? Where is He?”
“Where is He? Here He is – He is hanging here on this gallows…”

During Wiesel’s stay at the death camps and concentration camps, he began to question his faith. Many people did the same. In fact, they were convinced there was no God at all. How could God let this happen? He believed that God frequently kills and ignores his own people. Such is the case for Adam and Eve, the Great Flood, and now the death of the Jews by the Germans. This is quite a statement. Wiesel has been transformed into something other than human. When his father was beaten, he felt no emotion. At the gallows, he did not even cringe. He lived with death and met it face to face. These victims believe that God was dead.

I think this is powerful no matter what you believe. This was a time when millions of people began to question the existence of God. A time where children where seperated from their motherd and fathers and thrown into crematories. How can still have faith in the most extreme conditions? And how could God let millions upon millions of his own people be murdered? Not too long ago, the United States suffered from the same questioning of beliefs. September 11, 2001 was a very grave day in not only American history, but world history as well. A day where nearly 3,000 Americans were killed because of terrorists. A day where time stopped and God was doubted. It describes a point in which, I would assume everyone's life, that they doubt what they believe. But to overcome this doubt, they must find the power to perservere and to withstand. To withstand and to have faith is proving you cannot succumb to the evil of terror. And that is God intends for all of us to do.