Why did I, like thousands of others, have to carry a cross I hadn't chosen, a cross which was not made for my shoulders and which didn't concern me? Who decided to come rummaging around in my obscure existence, invade my gray anonymity, my meager tranquility, and bowl me like a little ball in a great game of skittles? God? Well, in that case, if He exists, if He really exists, let Him hide His face. Let Him put His two hands on His head, and let Him bow down. It may be, as Peiper used to teach us, that many men are unworthy of Him, but now I know that He, too, is unworthy of most of us, and that if the creature is capable of producing horror, it's solely because his Creator has slipped him the recipe for it. Philippe Claudel
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The quote above expresses anger that God has manipulated humankind into believing that he is omnipotent. The creator of life is seen as being capable of creating something so vile as the Holocaust. The author says that God created this horrible thing so that He can bow down and hide his face from it, because he has slipped the recipe for it.

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