God's Indiference

God’s Indifference


Some people believe that God was indifferent toward the Jews during the Holocaust. It is hard for us to imagine what God was actually thinking during this horrible event in our history, maybe we are not meant to understand his reasons why he allowed the Holocaust to take place. I do not believe that God was indifferent toward the Jews, he loved them too much to ever forget about them or turn his back on them. God was not indifferent because he loves and cares about all of his people, he has reasons for everything that happens, and maybe it was the Jews who stopped caring about God rather than the other way around. There’s no doubt, the Jews lived a nightmare, and they may have been justified in thinking that God did not care about them but did he really not care?

In Elie Wiesel’s recollection of his experience during the Holocaust called “Night”, Elie says that there was a point when he was stationed in some of the concentration camps when...