If in fact the concept of God is an invention by man, why should some women whose philosophy of life permits them to have an abortion have feelings of guilt afterward, even to the point of becoming psychologically ill? Yet, “studies show a high proportion of abortees to be maladjusted,” even in communist Yugoslavia. (The New Encyclopædia Britannica) Professor Henri Baruk, member of the French Academy of Medicine, explains this phenomenon as being due to the violation of “a fundamental principle written in the heart of all people.” Written by whom?
Another phenomenon that has set people thinking is the worldwide spread of sexually transmitted diseases. AIDS , with its high death rate, has triggered a wave of doubt and anguish among many people for whom promiscuous sex had supposedly brought liberation from outmoded taboos. The high price many are paying for their sexual “freedom” is causing some of them to wonder if, after all, they are not being punished. Punished by whom?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the noted Soviet exile and author who considered himself a Marxist in his younger years, took a dim view of atheism when he said recently in an award-acceptance speech: “The entire 20th century is being sucked into the vortex of atheism and self-destruction. We can only reach with determination for the warm hand of God, which we have so rashly and self-confidently pushed away . . . There is nothing else to cling to in the landslide.” That surely does not sound as if disbelief or atheism is the answer, does it?
