“Over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.’
Since then I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.’”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Templeton Address (10.may.1983)
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Forgotten
HT: Ray Ortlund
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Wow, during one of my random thoughts at Church, I was thinking about these very words Solzhenitsyn gave to the students at Harvard, and how they booed him following his presentation. Its amazing that the conclusion their so called educated brains could not bear mirrors the manifested rejection of Christ while we ask for various Barrabbuses in exchange.
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