Heneni
Miss Independent
A couple of examples...Mao was a fierce atheist - but in 1936, when as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party he fell very sick, he demanded to be baptized and received baptism from the hand of a nun. When his wife was shot by the troops of Chiang Kai-shek, he composed a religious poem "The Immortals". (i would like to read that poem!) And in an interview with the American newspaperman Snow in 1971, he said, "Soon I will have to appear before God."
Another example, Zinoviev, president of the Communist International, died at the hands of Stalin.. his last words were: "Listen, Israel, our God is the only God."
Yagoda, Soviet Minister of Interior Affairs, also killed by Stalin, said: "There must be a God, because my sins have reached me."
Yaroslavski, President of the League of the Godless in the U.S.S.R., asked Stalin from his deathbed: "Burn all my books! Look, He is here! He waited for me. Burn all my books!" (Obviously Jesus had showed himself to Yaroslavski.)
Lenin, when the Russian Revolution ws in greatest danger, when Petersburg was surrounded by the troops of the anti-Communist general Kornilov, delivered a speech in which he exclaimed several times, "Dai Boje" = "May God grant that we escape." Lenin never used this expression except in this moment of deep crisis.
Talleyrand: "I am suffering the pangs of the darned."
Mirabeau: "Give me laudanum that I may not think of eternity."
Voltaire: "I am abandoned by God and man. I shall go to hell. Oh, Christ, oh, Jesus Christ!"
Charles IX, King of France: "What blood, what murders, what evil counsels have I followed. I am lost, I see it well."
Tom Paine: "I would give worlds, if I had them, if the Age of Reason (an anti-Christian book) had never been published. Oh Lord, help me. Christ, help me. Stay with me. It is hell to be left alone."
Why do you think that in the final hours of these people's lives they reached out to the only thing they were certain was not real.
Another example, Zinoviev, president of the Communist International, died at the hands of Stalin.. his last words were: "Listen, Israel, our God is the only God."
Yagoda, Soviet Minister of Interior Affairs, also killed by Stalin, said: "There must be a God, because my sins have reached me."
Yaroslavski, President of the League of the Godless in the U.S.S.R., asked Stalin from his deathbed: "Burn all my books! Look, He is here! He waited for me. Burn all my books!" (Obviously Jesus had showed himself to Yaroslavski.)
Lenin, when the Russian Revolution ws in greatest danger, when Petersburg was surrounded by the troops of the anti-Communist general Kornilov, delivered a speech in which he exclaimed several times, "Dai Boje" = "May God grant that we escape." Lenin never used this expression except in this moment of deep crisis.
Talleyrand: "I am suffering the pangs of the darned."
Mirabeau: "Give me laudanum that I may not think of eternity."
Voltaire: "I am abandoned by God and man. I shall go to hell. Oh, Christ, oh, Jesus Christ!"
Charles IX, King of France: "What blood, what murders, what evil counsels have I followed. I am lost, I see it well."
Tom Paine: "I would give worlds, if I had them, if the Age of Reason (an anti-Christian book) had never been published. Oh Lord, help me. Christ, help me. Stay with me. It is hell to be left alone."
Why do you think that in the final hours of these people's lives they reached out to the only thing they were certain was not real.
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