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HERETIC from page 107
CITY OF GOD from page 107
Timothy's. Church in the East
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novel, based on Pem's life.
This is a novel in which char-
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to this terrifying century.
this novel set at the millennium,
Doctorow is a moral and
al urban witness, in his story-
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telling as well as in its form
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— &melee Brawarsky
repeated messages is that the Inquisition
has no ideological justification, and that
Jesus himself would never have approved
of it: "The seed planted by gentle Jesus
is wrapped in ignorant dogma and made
an instrument of death."
The second is that the principal
motivation for the Inquisition was not
Christian sympathy for the sinners or
well-meaning adherence to the will of
God but the Christians' insecurity
about their own religion. This argu-
ment manifests in the final conversa-
tion between Gabriel and Perez: "Why
are you so afraid? Are you really con-
cerned for the souls of Jews who don't
accept Jesus? Or are you terrified that
your own faith will collapse if it's
opened to question?"
Passages of The Heretic seem to
have been written solely to dissuade
people who think that the Spanish
Inquisition was the hippest thang hap-
pening since the destruction of the
Second Temple. One might ask, who
are such people?
I have no idea, but I would bet
they're not the type who would read a
selection of the Jewish Book Club.
Despite his tendency to preach to
the converted, Weinstein, president of
a biomedical research institute in New
York City, has much to commend
him. His descriptions of Jewish rituals
and holidays are vivid and touching,
and he has a remarkable talent for cre-
ating cinematic action on paper.
What most impressed me about
The Heretic, however, was its willing-
ness to ask the tough questions my
Hebrew schoolteachers avoided. For
example, Gabriel refuses to print the
19th benediction of the Shemoneh
Esrei, arguing, "Why should Jews call
God's curse against those who believe
differently than us? When we say
these words, we're no better than the
Christians who curse us."
A character who has just been made
to watch the brutal rape of his wife
and daughter cries, "Why does God
permit such atrocities?"
"Why do we always get screwed?"
Late in the novel, Gabriel attempts an
answer: "Do you think God has aban-
doned His chosen people? Never! He
tests us. He makes our lives difficult.
But that's because He loves us."
Instead of clearing things up, how-
ever, this argument only befuddles me
further: I fail to understand the neces-
sity of persecution in love.
To retort with yet another ques-
tion, I quote Tevye: "I know, I
know. We are your chosen people.
But, once in a while, can't you
choose someone else?" ❑