A question of a religious nature

[fateless_boy]

Gyuri knows he shouldn't be bothering these people so soon after arriving here but he can't help it anymore. He keeps dreaming of the camps, particularly the night they hung the escapees. He never sees anything in those dreams, he just hears the rabbi standing next to him start saying Kaddish with one prisoner after another picking it up until the

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[tinylittleonion]

Well, where Alyosha comes from anti-semitism is still the fashion, but Alyosha could never truly understand any kind of hatred -- Gyuri just looks like a boy to him, although a poor and pitiable boy, and Alyosha smiles kindly. "I am not a Jew ... but our prayers, I think, are to the same God. What did you want to ask?"

[fateless_boy]

"Oh. If you were Jewish I would have asked you to teach me."

[tinylittleonion]

"Ah, I'm sorry. What would you have asked me to teach you?"

[fateless_boy]

"Everything."

[false_kyllikki]

Hello, Gyuri--have a devout pagan with limited world experience. She will smile, and give him a little bow. "Please, sir ... what is a Jew?"

[fateless_boy]

He thinks about it. "Me and people like me."

[false_kyllikki]

Softly, she asks, "Are you gods?" Because she has met many of them, here.

[fateless_boy]

He just stares at her for a long moment before erupting into harsh, coughing laughter.

[oneofallofakind]

*bouncy beam* I'm Jewish! What would you like to know?

[fateless_boy]

He looks at her, a little surprised that she isn't wearing a star. "Do you know Hebrew? Or Yiddish?"

[oneofallofakind]

Only a little bit. Do you?

[fateless_boy]

"No." He sounds a bit ashamed. "I'd like to learn."

[baldr_dash]

Here, have a pagan god.

"I do not know of Jews, but I can speak of religion, what would you know?"

[fateless_boy]

"I was wondering why God never does anything. Why He lets the innocent suffer and die." Gyuri looks like he might have been innocent once but it was a long time ago.

[baldr_dash]

He tilts his head curiously, "Of which god do you speak? There are many of us.."

[fateless_boy]

"God. The one and only. It isn't as though there are multiples."

[sight_enough]

Karal is a priest, physically blind, but he looks in Gyuri's direction with a quiet smile.

"I am not Jewish, but maybe I can help?"

[fateless_boy]

"Do you know why he lets things happen? Terrible things?"

[sight_enough]

"If your god is anything like mine, then I believe it is because he wants us to live our lives for ourselves.

"He gave us life, yes, but he also gave us free will, and to live our lives for us would be denying us that."

[fateless_boy]

"But He didn't so anything to stop others from taking away our free will. He didn't do anything to stop us from dying."