Invisible contracts by george mercier pdf

It has prevented me, and still prevents me, from conceiving of any form of providence or transcendent justiceвЂ¦ I must nevertheless admit that I experienced (and again only once) the temptation to yield, to seek refuge in prayer. Actually, the experience of the Lager with its frightful iniquity confirmed me in my nonbelief. вЂњI too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day. If I was God, I would spit at KuhnвЂ™s prayer.вЂќ -FROM PRIMO LEVI: IF THIS IS A MAN (1959) Does he not see Beppo the Greek in the bunk next to him, Beppo who is twenty years old and is going to the gas-chamber the day after tomorrow and knows it and lies there looking fixedly at the light without saying anything and without even thinking anymore? Can Kuhn fail to realize that next time it will be his turn? Does Kuhn not understand that what has happened today is an abomination, which no propitiatory prayer, no pardon, no expiation by the guilty, which nothing at all in the power of man can ever clean again? Kuhn is thanking God because he has not been chosen. вЂњSilence slowly prevails and then, from my bunk on the top row, I see and hear old Kuhn praying aloud, with his beret on his head, swaying backwards and forwards violently. Dedicated to the memory of Primo Levi (1919вЂ“1987) who had the moral fortitude to refuse false consolation even while enduring the вЂњselectionвЂќ process in Auschwitz:

Invisible contracts by george mercier pdf