Elie Wiesel's Night goes very well with Endo's Silence. His questioning of God's silence during persecution goes hand in hand with that of Rodrigues. One thing that Wiesel brought out in the article provided was the questioning of the difference between God enabling and allowing Auschwitz. It is a question that has been asked for years, yet Wiesel admits that he, though not truly over the traumatic past, is now willing and in fact desires to return to a fellowship with God. He wants to move on from the unanswerable questions. That is what we was humans must do sometimes. Though we must ask the hardest questions in order to provoke thought, the questions are not always answered. That is a fact of life. Perhaps if Rodrigues had thought of this, the outcome of Silence could have been different. On the other hand, it could have remained the same. Either way, Wiesel's questioning of suffering and the assignment written by David Bentley Hart both point to one of the many unanswered, and I dare say, unanswerable questions in the realm of human thought.
P.S. I commented on Abbey Griffin's post.
I think the unanswerable question is why does God let bad things happen? The answer is far beyond human comprehension.
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