Pravda is the Russian daily that was the official voice of the Communist Party from 1912 until 1991. At one time it was edited by the atheist dictator, Joseph Stalin himself. But these days Pravda regularly features articles from…gulp… a Christian perspective.
There were two articles that caught my attention in the science section of today’s edition. The featured article was a defense of intelligent design. The second article was a Christian critique of Ann Rand’s objectivist philosophy. The editorial page included a column on hell. It argued that the fires of hell are not eternal; but it argued they are real, and that there is such a thing as eternal damnation.
How ironic is it to find articles such as this in a periodical which once served as the voice of an atheistic regime that set out to destroy faith in Christ? But this is always the way it ends. One after the other, His enemies step into the arena determined to kill Him. They hit Him with their best shot. He does nothing in response. He does not even defend Himself. So they hit Him again and again, until they wear themselves out. Then, after much huffing and puffing, it ends and his enemies return to dust and are forgotten. But Christ remains standing, unscathed.
