The ones who abandoned their faith during war found peace in other possessions rather than God, but after war, the recovery of the horrors they witnessed came from finding faith again as a stimulus to heal their past. The article “God after the Holocaust” explains that by continuing to deny God’s existence and abandon Him would be admitting defeat to the Nazis. The article stresses that God works in mysterious ways in everyone’s life and the Holocaust is just an event that cannot be justified, but through faith survivors can forget the memories from the Holocaust. The article “God after the Holocaust” argues that survivors’ experiences in the Holocaust taught the survivors valuable lessons that challenge them to trust in God again when it states,
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Wiesel stresses that God is not the reason the Holocaust took place because it was man kind’s evil action. God’s reasons and plans are mysterious and the Holocaust remains a question that cannot be answered by man. In a like manner, the article “About Siegfried Sassoon” expresses that Sassoon’s poetry in World War I provoked religious beliefs, but after World War I he began turning back to God to find peace from the horrors of war, which is evident when it states, “Sassoon became religious, something he had never previously been, and he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1957, strongly influenced by figures such as Dame Felicitas Corrigan and Dom Philip Jebb. Most of his later poetry was inspired by this new force in his life” (“About Siegfried Sassoon”). Originally, Sassoon had admitted that he had never prayed to God during World War I in Perspective on World War I Poetry but after the war he was led back to God by converting from Judaism to Catholicism. Thus, prisoners of war in the Holocaust reconciled with God once they realized God was not the reason for mankind’s destruction because man has a free will in which they can choose their actions, and soldiers who wrote poetry in World War I also found God after war once they became aware that God did not cause the
Wiesel stresses that God is not the reason the Holocaust took place because it was man kind’s evil action. God’s reasons and plans are mysterious and the Holocaust remains a question that cannot be answered by man. In a like manner, the article “About Siegfried Sassoon” expresses that Sassoon’s poetry in World War I provoked religious beliefs, but after World War I he began turning back to God to find peace from the horrors of war, which is evident when it states, “Sassoon became religious, something he had never previously been, and he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1957, strongly influenced by figures such as Dame Felicitas Corrigan and Dom Philip Jebb. Most of his later poetry was inspired by this new force in his life” (“About Siegfried Sassoon”). Originally, Sassoon had admitted that he had never prayed to God during World War I in Perspective on World War I Poetry but after the war he was led back to God by converting from Judaism to Catholicism. Thus, prisoners of war in the Holocaust reconciled with God once they realized God was not the reason for mankind’s destruction because man has a free will in which they can choose their actions, and soldiers who wrote poetry in World War I also found God after war once they became aware that God did not cause the