Miracles and Criticism

Kitty Kelly again uses an Oprah interview with holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel as arsenal against the talk show host:

"[Oprah] did not believe that bad things could happen to good people. Nor did she accept the anarchy of fate or wicked chaos, even bad luck. She totally dismissed good luck as having any part in her success. "Luck is a matter of preparation," she said. "I am highly attuned to my divine self." She believed that everything was dictated by holy design, including the 157 miracles she told viewers she had experienced. She told Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel that his surviving the Holocaust was a miracle, but he disagreed. "If a miracle of God to spare me, why? There were people much better than me. . . . No, it was an accident," he said. Oprah looked at him incredulously. (Page 223)

First of all, listen to how Oprah reveres Elie Wiesel, and then tell me Oprah would look at her "hero" with any sort of skepticism.



Oprah calls Elie Wisel "my hero", and says "One of the great gifts in my life to be able to sit and talk with Elie Wiesel." Of course she would believe it was a Miracle that he survived. He is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and a figure who has taught so many people about surviving through adversity and still come out professing peace. Although he is modest (a quality Kitty Kelly may not be in touch with), many people whose lives he has touched can claim it was a miracle that he survived the concentration camps.

My grandpa is a holocaust survivor, and he questions his survivorship the same as Wiesel does, saying he does not understand how he could survive and more holy, more strong, more intelligent people did not. He says there was no logic or reason, it was just random and luck. He may not believe it was a miracle that he survived, but I do!

It just completely disgusts me that Kelley would twist the words of a Holocaust survivor and his opinions on miracles and divine intervention after experiencing all the atrocities that he has experienced, and use those words against Oprah, who claims she idolizes the man.