Suffering In Schindler's List

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My perspective on suffering has changed and deepened after understanding and researching more about the Jews during the Holocaust and how brutality took over their lives. After watching Schindler’s List, the confronting scenes with unimaginable acts showed how suffering is immoral in many ways. As it is stated, that everything that happens in a human’s lifetime happens for a reason. Regardless of the fact that it’s bad, it always brings out something positive in the end in some perspective. Jewish teachings often refer to suffering through God’s relation to it, believing that God abandoned his children during their worst of times leaving them to face many hardships and immense torture from the Nazis during the Holocaust. The teachings demonstrate the spectrum between God, evil and human suffering between those individual who accept God’s relationship to evil and to those who refuse to agree to any positive assumptions made on suffering and further protest to state and make others believe that God is always right and does things for a reason. …show more content…

Although there were many individual Jews who never lost their faith in God regardless of what they were experiencing as they knew that God will show them light at some point even through a small action. Catholic teachings, state that suffering comes and goes and is often a part of the human life cycle; there is no way to avoid it, but accepting it and keeping faith in God shows that the individual is strong. As the question still comes into mind about why do bad things happen to good people? It is the Catholic thinking that good things can still come out of the bad. For example, as one key positive thing came out one horrific event, the Holocaust. It showed that the people who survived have an unbreakable faith in God now and believe that it was all a part of life, but very

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