A Conservative's Tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev
That the God of creation is man’s benefactor is so foundational it cannot be arrived at by any other proposition. It is the basic principle upon which all other principles follow. When man chooses to walk according to God’s benevolent law, he learns of the power that is God’s alone and by which God grants him victory over evil.
Those who persist in the fantasy of revisionist morality (moral relativism) and a central government that compromises the people’s right to be fully informed have, in fact, ignored the irreversible laws of creation’s nature. When liberal majorities on the Supreme Court and secular educators fail to uphold the God-honoring predicate of the US Constitution, they are, in effect, empowering atheistic revisionism that preys on societies.
At a United Nations forum, December 7, 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev, atheist leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, repudiated the atheistic dogma shared by Karl Marx and Charles Darwin. Reflecting upon the disintegration of the secular (progressive) system, Gorbachev said: “The compelling necessity of the principle of freedom of choice is … clear to us. The failure to recognize this … is fraught with very dire consequences ... Freedom of choice is a universal principle to which there should be no exceptions. We have not come to the conclusion of the immutability of this principle simply through good motives. We have been led to it through impartial analysis of the objective processes of our time. This objective fact presupposes respect for other people’s views“ (George P. Schultz, Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, Turmoil and Triumph, New York: Macmillan, 1993, p. 1107).
Failure to acknowledge the benevolent laws of God and conform to moral truth guarantees harmful consequences. Gorbachev tried to prevent its collapse by relaxing socialistic rule. To do this, he adopted perestroika and glasnost (which allowed the people to be informed and free to communicate) and property rights, but socialism had gone too far. Beginning in 1989, the puppet Communist governments in captive countries controlled by the Soviets were overthrown by the people. The Soviet Union fell apart when captive countries quit sending them the revenue required to keep the socialist economy afloat.
Writing of perestroika, Gorbachev’s wife Raisa said: “Our society has set out on the path of renewal and of demolishing totalitarianism and the obsolete command system of administering the country” (Raisa Gorbachev, Reminiscences and Reflections, Harper Collins, 1991, p. 174).
Whether or not Gorbachev realized it, the Soviet empire was being forced to acknowledge that those who reject the “sovereignty of man under God over government” run into the immutable laws of creation’s nature. Those laws support life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In contrast, the vacillating laws of man lead to exploitation, cultural decay, poverty, and tyranny. When God’s benevolent provision is rejected in any particular, the rejecter bears the price of that sin against himself and the will of God.