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people's own hands have brought about so that they may taste
something of what they have done so that hopefully, they will
turn back.
Nobel laureate Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, a passionate critic of
Communism, captured in his writings these Divine rules' social nature.
In a speech delivered in London in 1983, the Russian author stated why
disaster had fallen on his people:
Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number
of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that
had befallen Russia: " "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has hap-
pened."
Since then I have spend well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our
revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hun-
dreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight vol-
umes 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 60 mil-
lion of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat:
"Menhave forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." 128
Communism happened because people forgot God. It is a living ex-
ample that shows how merciless, brutal and barbarous a godless society
can be, and what kind of society materialist philosophies like
Darwinism give birth to. Looking at the misery Communism has
brought, we can understand the great difference between a society with
religious moral values and one with none. And this is the means
whereby we will understand that, for human salvation, the only solution
is to live a life founded on religious moral values.
But as long as people keep denying God and wandering into these
philosophies distant from the morality of religion, Communism and
other perverted ideologies will find a place to exist. As the verse above
says, if people do not want "corruption to appear in both land and sea
because of what their own hands have brought about," first they must
distance themselves from these ideologies and draw others away from
them as well. To achieve this, people must be acquainted with the scien-
tific invalidity and the dark side of Darwinism, accepted as scientific