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God on Trial at Auschwitz

Jonathan MS Pearce

28 Mar 2014

I am sure I have posted this before, but this is well worth a watch. Actually, the screenplay was written by a Catholic; I heard him being interviewed about it once, and he talked about his faith REALLY wavering over this. It is a brilliant piece of BBC TV: http://youtu.be/5caAug5n8Zk   RELATED POSTS:

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Pixabay

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