[davidboyd] David: Wickedness

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Wickedness
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   [1]Stein:

     When I got back to Los Angeles, I started to read a book I can't
     finish, called A Writer at War by Vassily Grossman, a correspondent
     with the Red Army newspaper during World War II.
     The part I can't get past is the atrocities of the Germans towards
     the Jews when they took the Ukraine in the early part of World War
     II. One incident just haunts me every day.
     The Germans came upon a kosher butcher. They asked him if he were
     really a good butcher. He said he hoped he was. They brought his
     two small sons to him and said, "Show us. On your sons."
     I keep putting the book down at this point and wondering, "Why did
     God bother making creatures as wicked as man?"

References

   1. http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9883