The Atheist's handbook - denounces believe in life beyond the grave as "the basis of the religious theory" and "extremely dangerous."
But what is life if nothing follows after death?
Let us suppose that Socialists ideals are accomplished. We will have a perfect society, without the distinction between rich and poor, without wars and revolutions, with wealth, culture, and happiness for everybody. But men will still have to die. Poor men die easily. There is not much to lose. For happy men death is a catastrophe. Kirov, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Leningrad district, assassinated by Stalin, had a position of power. He enjoyed life. His last words were, "I wish to live and to live and to live." If Stalin had not killed him, he would have died a natural death a few years later and his last tragic words would have been the same.
We all have to die. The decision does not depend on us. If nothing follows, the most beautiful life is nothing more than a banquet offered to a condemned man before his execution. He gets dainties and then is hanged. He may live in an ideal society, but eventually he will rot, forgotten forever by everyone.
Go comfort somebody who is dying in a cancer ward, or his family, with these words: "We are building a happy Socialist society," or "Science achieves great things. We have been to the moon and soon we will be on Venus." There is not much consolation in this. But tell the dying and the bereaved about the heavenly Father and the Christian's hope of living eternally with Him, and you will see the difference.
If the Atheists are right and there is not life hereafter, "All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death" (Shakespeare).
Excerpted and edited from The Answer to the Atheist's Handbook, pp. 150-151
By Rev, Richard Wurmbrand (1909-2001), founder of Voice of the Martyrs, spent a total of 14 years in Romanian prisons.
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