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...historian Jeffrey Burton Russell asks, "What kind of God is this? Any decent religion must face the question squarely, and no answer is credible that cannot be given in the presence of dying children." Can one propose a God who is partly evil? Elie Wiesel, who was in Auschwitz as a child, suggests that perhaps God has "retracted himself" in the matter of evil. Wiesel has written, "God is in exile, but every individual, if he strives hard enough, can redeem mankind, and even God himself...
...been more or less constant presences in the human heart, their proportions staying roughly the same over the centuries. And perhaps the chief dark categories have remained constant and familiar. The first time that death appeared in the world, it was murder. Cain slew Abel. "Two men," says Elie Wiesel, "and one of them became a killer." The odds have presumably been fifty-fifty ever since. The Old Testament is full of savageries that sound eerily contemporary. (The British writer J.R. Ackerley once wrote to a friend, "I am halfway through Genesis, and quite appalled by the disgraceful behavior...
...Simon S. Kuznets 1971 Economics Kenneth J. Arrow 1972 Economics Wassily W. Leontif 1973 Economics William N. Lipscomb 1976 Chemistry John H. Van Vleck 1977 Physics Sheldon L. Glashow 1979 Physics Steven Weinberg 1979 Physics Baruj Benacerraf 1980 Medicine, Physiology Walter Gilbert 1980 Chemistry David Hubel 1981 Medicine Torsten Wiesel 1981 Medicine Nicolaas Bloembergen 1981 Physics Carlo Rubbia 1984 Physics Bernard Lown 1985 Peace Dudley Herschbach 1986 Chemistry Norman F. Ramsey 1989 Physics Joseph E. Murray 1990 Medicine Elias J. Corey 1990 Chemistry
What is hate? A "black sun," as Wiesel wrote? The image may give hate too much of a strange literary prestige. Black sun. White whale. Whatever. The reason the subject is hard to discuss is that hate is simultaneously a mystery and a moron. It seems either too profound to understand or too shallow and stupid to bear much analysis -- a cretin with a club, violent, repulsive, irrational, a black intoxication, an accomplice of death...
...Elie Wiesel assembled an astonishing collection of political, intellectual and moral leaders in Oslo to talk about hate. The subject remains an ugly mystery...