They are materialists. For them nothing besides matter exists and to them a man is like wood, like an eggshell. With this belief they sink to unthinkable depths of cruelty.
The cruelty of atheism is hard to believe. When a man has no faith in the reward of good or the punishment of evil, there is no reason to be human. There is no restraint from the depths of evil that is in man.
I learned from them. As they allowed no place for Jesus in their hearts, I decided I would leave not the smallest place for Satan in mine.
The above is a powerful quote from a book I am reading called Tortured for Christ, by Richard Wurmbrand. Wurmbrand was an evangelical minister who endured 14 years of Communist imprisonment and torture in his homeland of Romania, and was a leader in the Underground Church of eastern Europe. He spent 3 years in solitary confinement and his wife, thinking he was dead, was a slave-laborer for 3 years on the Danube Canal.
Wurnbrand was released in a general amnesty in 1964 and Christians in Norway negotiated his release from Romania for $10,000. In 1966, He testified before Congress and was later informed of a planned assassination attempt by the Romanian government.
Wurmbrand went on to found the Christian mission The Voice of the Martyrs and to travel the world seeking relief for the families of imprisoned Christians in Islamic and Communist nations. He died in 2001, but his ministry lives on.
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