26 August 2009

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy


"'God shouldn't have let this killing happen. God should have stopped it.'
Starzec gestured at the trees and the forest around them. 'Do you see God? Where is he, you fool?'
Dobry flushed and shook his head. 'I don't know.'
'God didn't come down and kill us. I don't see God shooting children and priests. None of us met God beating up Jews and shoving them into railroad cars. This is men doing the murdering. Talk to men about their evil, kill the evil men, but pray to God. You can't expect God to come down and do our living for us. We have to do that ourselves'" (207).

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