Talk:Elie Wiesel

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He Was Not Agnostic - He Was a Believer and Advocate of Theism
Here we have Mr. Wiesel included among several lists of Agnostics Category:American agnostics, Category:Jewish_agnostics, Category:Romanian_agnostics, but this is unfair. The man doesn't belong with these people. The man never lost confidence in his Creator. Although there are many sources and examples that can be referred to, perhaps the best is from Mr. Wiesel's own memoirs. I will post an excerpt from the memoir that Mr. Wiesel published in 1995, All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Vol. I, 1928–1969, Chapter 2. (Elie Wiesel bibliography): "There is a passage in Night-recounting the hanging of a young Jewish boy-that has given rise to an interpretation bordering on blasphemy. Theorists of the idea that 'God is dead' have used my words unfairly as justification of their rejection of faith. But if Nietzsche could cry out to the old man in the forest that God is dead, the Jew in me cannot. I have never renounced my faith in God. I have risen against His justice, protested His silence and sometimes His absence, but my anger rises up within faith and not outside it. I admit that this is hardly an original position. It is part of Jewish tradition. But in these matters I have never sought originality. On the contrary, I have always aspired to follow in the footsteps of my father and those who went before him. Moreover, the texts cite many occasions when prophets and sages rebelled against the lack of divine interference in human affairs during times of persecution. Abraham and Moses, Jeremiah and Rebbe Levi- Yitzhak of Berdichev teach us that it is permissible for man to accuse God, provided it be done in the name of faith in God. If that hurts, so be it. Sometimes we must accept the pain of faith so as not to lose it. And if that makes the tragedy of the believer more devastating than that of the nonbeliever, so be it. To proclaim one's faith within the barbed wire of Auschwitz may well represent a double tragedy, of the believer and his Creator alike. All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Vol. I, 1928–1969, ELIE WIESEL (1995) CHAPTER 2 Darkness pg. 84"Thus it is not fair to have categorized this very pious man, who kept kosher and prayed regularly, in such a manner. Perhaps more appropriate would be to include him here Category:Jewish religious writers. Editors please consider removing these inappropriate categories, from this biography. This ostensibly borders on disrespect to do otherwise. 172.250.237.36 (talk) 12:13, 26 June 2024 (UTC)