The Trial of God.

Okay, so I am working on this project for my "Type is Mass" class...we have to pick a play, do a playbill, poster and 3-D installation project on our selected play. I chose, "The Trial of God" by Elie Weisel...I don't know what my interest is with holocaust-related material, but I am drawn to this event in history. If history repeats itself, I want to walk into the future with my eyes open. I found all of this information re. Weisel and faith online...thought I'd share it with everyone.

"The redemption of suffering cannot be found as an "ultimate answer" to a problem: it can only be an event that transforms the drama of suffering into a drama of love and shows love to be more powerful than its denial."
–Lorenzo Albacete


"Emmanuel Mounier, the founder of the French "personalist" philosophical movement, wrote that the most important aspect of human life is a "divine restlessness" in us, a divine "lack of peace" within our hearts. It is a permanent search for the meaning of life, an interest imprinted on "un-extinguished souls," on those who are not paralyzed by temporary satisfactions or ideological answers to all human questions. Indeed what makes our lives truly human is the ceaseless questioning before Mystery, before "something greater," whether we are three or ninety-three years old. This questioning allows us to see even everyday sights with the same amazement and wonder we felt the first time we saw them and to keep our hearts awake to the world around us."
–Lorenzo Albacete

"This questioning also makes life worth living in the midst of even the greatest sufferings. Mounier saw those united by this approach to life as constituting a unique community, a people committed to action, to new initiatives that break ground at the deepest level of human experience and open new possibilities for humankind. The inhabitants of the world of suffering are the ones who truly transform the world. They are the true revolutionaries on behalf of human dignity."
–Lorenzo Albacete

"Love, though, is impossible without freedom, but freedom allows the possibility of acting against love. The freedom to love is what allows the human being to escape the limitations of what science calls nature and to experience justice and injustice."
–Lorenzo Albacete

Some food for thought.