Gorby Denounces Christian Label
I figured I should post this new development given I covered this when the previous accounts surfaced a couple weeks ago.
Gorbachev Dispels “Closet Christianity” - Christian Post
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev made clear this past weekend that he is an atheist after European news agencies last week claimed that he had confirmed his Christian faith during a visit to the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi in Italy.
Gorbachev, the last communist leader of the Soviet Union, confronted speculations that he had been a closeted Christian during an interview with the Russian news agency Interfax.
“Over the last few days some media have been disseminating fantasies — I can’t use any other word — about my secret Catholicism, citing my visit to the Sacro Convento friary, where the remains of St. Francis of Assisi lie,” Gorbachev said, according to an Interfax article posted Friday.
Oh well… Have faith, Gorby. Have faith.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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There is no room in state religion for the mystery of uncertainty. Gorbi decided to trade the state control economy for the mixed market economy. He did NOT trade his belief in the perfectibility (by state control) of the common man for some etherial, uncontrollable spirit from the great beyond. Duh!!!
Comment by heliotrope — March 26, 2008 @ 9:14 pm - March 26, 2008
Maybe Gorby is still in the closet. The Christian closet that is!
Comment by Mark J. Goluskin — March 26, 2008 @ 11:45 pm - March 26, 2008
This is very confusing. If he’s an atheist, so be it, but why last week did he say:
<blockquote>“It was through St Francis that I arrived at the Church, so it was important that I came to visit his tomb,†said Mr Gorbachev.
“I feel very emotional to be here at such an important place not only for the Catholic faith, but for all humanity.â€
He also asked the monks for theological books to help him understand St Francis’s life.
Mr Gorbachev’s surprise visit confirmed decades of rumours that, although he was forced to publicly pronounce himself an atheist, he was in fact a Christian, and casts a meeting with Pope John Paul II in 1989 in a new light. </blockquote>
It does look like his comments don’t say "I am a Christian" but that it led him to the Church, which is usually what that means, but his new comments certainly seem more definitive.Â
Comment by Amy Proctor — March 27, 2008 @ 12:48 pm - March 27, 2008