Asked why he hadn't lost his faith after the "Final Solution": "I know Jews who lost their faith in the Holocaust; who lost their faith because of the Holocaust; but with me I lost another kind of faith when I began in my late teens to reflect on the Holocaust.
I lost faith in humanity; I lost faith in the ability of a purely secular civilization to contain the destructive energies we know are there in our midst. For me, the thing I can never get over is that the Holocaust took place at the very heart of liberal post-enlightenment scientifically oriented Europe. I never lost faith in God because I never saw God as a strategic intervener who stops us from exercising our freedom."
