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Why Believe in God? In reading literature by different authors and experiencing that of different genres, the reader is often exposed to a variety of interpretations of Christianity. These assorted representations often display Christianity as a close-minded and ignorant ideology. Christians are depicted as blindly believing that they are guaranteed a better life after they die based solely on the fact that they believe in Jesus Christ. Albert Camus’s novel, The Stranger, is no exception to this rule. In Camus’s novel, Christians are presented as using their faith as a crutch on which they rely with no other explanation for their belief other than the fact that without it, their lives would be meaningless, similar to that of Meursault. The first experience Meursault and the reader have with a Christian in the novel is during the Meursault’s second interview with the magistrate. While the magistrate is struggling to