presence in the concentration camp. Wiesel blames God for not protecting his people as the powerful father they believed him to be. During their time in the concentration camps, the Jews must have prayed to God thousands of times without answers. This challenges their whole belief-system because how could a loving God let such a thing happen to his people. This need for a father-like God supports Freud's theory that religion forced humans into a state of "physical infantilism" where they are dependant upon a father-like God. This dependency stems from Freud's model of the Oedipus Complex.
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