All Faithful People Wonders Analysis

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Harsh events can make someone intolerant of their beliefs/faith as shown in the book Night and the article All Faithful People Wonder: Why Does God Allow Natural Disasters?. Beliefs are something that are not easy to alter, but if a negative predicament or situation occurs, that increases the chance of alteration. In the book Night, while they are still fighting their way through the concentration camp, all the people in the camp experience some of their fellow prisoners be hung, some of them ask rhetorical questions: “Where is Merciful God, where is he?” “For God’s sake, where is God?” (Wiesel 64). The people are doubting their belief in God as they see this event occur. Seeing innocent people killed for no sufficient reason, makes they become

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