The figure of the crucified Jesus abandoned by God and dying without hope of resurrection, does not, however, yield the image of man’s tragic complaint against a deaf sky … It’s image is not the hero fighting against great odds and defeated in the end, but in the masses of helpless victims subjected to meaninglessness, waste and torture, defeated from the beginning …
It was surely a profound experience of the pits of unredeemed humanity suffering in the contemporary world, combined with a pitiless realism regarding the effects of affliction on men’s souls that led Simone Weil to realise that any attempt to resurrect the dead God is doomed to remain romantic rhetoric … A God who does not exist, who emptied himself into the world, transformed his substance in the blind mechanism of the world, a God who dies in the inconsolable pits of human affliction.
Jacob Taubes