A Commentary on Mans Faith and his Guilt Essay -- Religion Religious

A Commentary on Mans confidence and his GuiltArchibald MacLeish raised many thought provoking questions in the quicken J.B.. The Book of Job had already asked some of these questions, while others were very true and insightful. MacLeish offers many powerful thoughts on the relationship between man and divinity, some of which are disturbing to consider. Nickels lost his organized religion in both graven image and man. He believes that the purpose of life is merely to survive and not to live. Nickles says, there must be thousands... Millions and millions of mankind burned, crushed, broken, mutilated, slaughtered, and for what? For thinking For walking around the field in the wrong skin, the wrong shaped noises, eyelids sleeping the wrong night wrong city- London, Dresden, Hiroshima. (MacLeish, 12) In fact the only thing that Nickels did have creed in was that J.B. would curse God if tested. Mr. Zuss, on the other hand, has complete faith in humanity and J.B. He knows of J.B. s strength and his ability to love God. In short, Mr. Zuss has faith in J.B.s faith. However, J.B.s faith in God is ill founded. J.B.s faith in God is based on the fact that he believes God to be just, still is God really just? If he is consequently why does J.B. suffer so? Maybe it is just J.B.s notion of evaluator that is incorrect. Bildad comments on the notion of justice, History is justice -- Time inexorably glum to truth&8230 One mans suffering wont count, no matter what his suffering but all will. At the end ...