“They were a luckless lot too. What harm did they do anyone by praying to God? Every man Jack of ’em given twenty-five years.”
― One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
― One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The things that you find on the internet. From 1963, broadcast on the anthology series Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theater, a televised adaptation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s searing masterpiece, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Considering that the book, based on Solzhenitsyn’s experiences in the Soviet Gulag from 1945-1953, was published only in 1962 this was a rapid transition to television, attesting to the immense impact of the book.
A good program. The acting is understated but conveys the horror of the Gulag well, and that Man has never yet been able to devise a hell on earth that can completely squelch the desire in each human soul for simple decency.
Conclusion: Democrat vision realized.
Don’t believe the left or democrats.
From 1917 to the death of Stalin in 1953, the daily average number of state executions was 2,200.
Solzhenitsyn asks, “Why is it that Macbeth, Iago, and other Shakespearean evildoers stopped at a dozen corpses, while Lenin and Stalin killed millions? The answer is “ideology.” Ideology makes the killer and torturer an agent of good, [Solzhenitsyn] “so that he won’t hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.” Ideology never achieved power and scale until the twentieth century.
The atheist refuses to petition Almighty God for Faith. Religion is man’s response to God’s gift of Faith. The atheist prohibits all other citizens from petitioning Almighty God “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our (constitutional) Posterity,” all future generations. The Preamble to our Constitution for the United States of America. Our legacy to all future generations, our constitutional posterity, cannot be a denial of First Amendment civil rights to freely express our petitions to Almighty God for Peace, Prosperity and Freedom.
Atheism denies The Supreme Sovereign Being, the sovereign Person of the Creator, the sovereign Person of the Redeemer, the sovereign Person of the Holy Spirit, petitioned for in our Declaration of Independence. “And for the support of this Declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence…”
Citizenship is good will for the common good. Petitions to God for Peace, Prosperity and “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our (Constitutional) Posterity.” The Preamble, (the purpose) to The Constitution for the United States of America, are good will for the common good.
In refusing to acknowledge Almighty God, the atheist refuses to acknowledge the unalienable human rights endowed by “their Creator”. In refusing to acknowledge Divine Providence and petition God for Peace and Posterity and Liberty, the atheist exhibits an extreme abhorrence of humanity and our general welfare.
It is no wonder that in the last century, hundreds of thousands, nay tens of millions of persons were put to death by political ideologies that refused to acknowledge The Supreme Sovereign Being and the children of God, sovereign persons.
“___That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men deriving their just power from the consent of the governed.
___That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” The Declaration of Independence
God endows divinity and sovereignty. Anyone who claims to be the hammer of God is a fool.