From Russia with Love...

Define irony.

One country goes through revolution to set up an atheistic state. It murders its king and “purges” the land of god. The new leadership sets up the state as god.

After almost one hundred years of oppression, murder, political and religious persecution, an economy in the toilet, and destroyed credibility as a super power, the atheistic one-party government is instrumental in reuniting the Orthodox Church and “bringing back God to the people.” Of course, the form of godliness without power that is the Russian Orthodox Church is an anemic move to the religious. Nevertheless, it signals a recognition for something more than Communism.

Another country, we won’t name names (United States), also goes through revolution. Severs ties with its king. Actively develops a government based upon the biblical concept of the fallen nature of man that needs checks and balances. Conducts the “great experiment” of creating a nation built upon the tenets of Christian Scripture. It has an economy that increases exponentially where the poorest among them live like kings compared to the vast majority of the rest of the world. Yet, after three hundred years of Disney Land, said country secularizes and rejects Christianity for “unfettered sex” and seeks to “purge” the nation of God.

Those who do not know history are doomed to be beaten by it.