"... a Soviet scientist, Shafarevich, who has nothing to do with religion - he is a computer scientist - did a very intensive research on the history of socialist countries. He called socialist, or communist, any country with a centralized economy and the pyramidal style of power structure. He discovered (actually he didn't discover - he just brought to the attention of his readers) that civilizations like Mohenjo-daro (in the river Indus area), Egypt, Maya, Incas, and Babylonian culture collapsed and disappeared from the surface of Earth the moment they lost religion. As simple as that - they disintegrated. Nobody remembers about them anymore (well, distantly). The ideas moving society and keeping mankind as a society of human beings, as intelligent, moral agents of God.
The facts, the truth, the exact knowledge may not, all the sophisticated technology and computers will not prevent society from disintegrating and eventually dying out…
Have you ever met a person who would sacrifice his life and freedom for the truth that 2x2 is 4? This is truth. I never met a person who said „2x2 = 4 is truth and I am ready to defend the truth, shoot me“.
But millions sacrifice their life, freedom, comfort, everything for things like God, like Jesus Christ. It’s an honor. Some martyrs in the soviet concentration camps died, and they died in peace, unlike those who shouted „Long live Stalin“, knowing perfectly well that he may not live long. Something which is not material moves society and helps it to survive. And the other way around, the moment we turn into 2x2 is 4 and make it a guiding principle of our life, our existence, we die. Even though it’s true, while the other we can not prove, we can only feel and have faith in it."
View: https://youtu.be/5gnpCqsXE8g?t=3542
The facts, the truth, the exact knowledge may not, all the sophisticated technology and computers will not prevent society from disintegrating and eventually dying out…
Have you ever met a person who would sacrifice his life and freedom for the truth that 2x2 is 4? This is truth. I never met a person who said „2x2 = 4 is truth and I am ready to defend the truth, shoot me“.
But millions sacrifice their life, freedom, comfort, everything for things like God, like Jesus Christ. It’s an honor. Some martyrs in the soviet concentration camps died, and they died in peace, unlike those who shouted „Long live Stalin“, knowing perfectly well that he may not live long. Something which is not material moves society and helps it to survive. And the other way around, the moment we turn into 2x2 is 4 and make it a guiding principle of our life, our existence, we die. Even though it’s true, while the other we can not prove, we can only feel and have faith in it."
View: https://youtu.be/5gnpCqsXE8g?t=3542
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