Our faith is systematically battered externally deliberately because our faith in God is what gives us the will and courage to stand up for what’s right. Whenever someone tries to pull and pressure you into a divisive form of religion with a lot of rules, look twice at them. God is within. God is all about truth. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you is the universal code.
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 happened." Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 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 60 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.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
