THE VERDICT AGAINST GOD
A powerful expression of the love of God is in a play written after World War II by a Lutheran minister named Guenter Rutenborn. The setting is in devastated Germany, and the plot is an attempt to discover who was to blame for the awful atrocities of the last five years. The obvious culprits are suggested: Hitler, the Jews, the bureaucrats, and the apathetic who did not resist. Suddenly a man gets up from the audience and strides down to the stage and says: “You are being superficial. You’re not taking this case back to its ultimate source. Do you want to know who is really to blame? I’ll tell you. God is. Is he not the one who made this horrible world? Is he not the one who entrusted all this power to unworthy hands? It’s God’s fault.” At first everyone is shocked by such an accusation, but gradually the idea catches on and the court agrees with the…
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