Does God exist?

I don't know if God exists. Nor do I know whether Jesus Christ was God. However, I am not an atheist due to the fact that I am profoundly convinced of the extraordinary power of the Gospel, the full fresh Testament.

How did I figure that out? Over the years of reading, talking and meditating on fascism, communism, totalitarianisms and the sources of human evil, I became increasingly convinced that humanity could save the message of Jesus Christ: love of neighbor, mercy, forgiveness, solidarity with the weaker and work of another man.

I cannot say, "I believe that Christ was God." But I can say: I believe the Gospel.

I see it as a universal moral constitution of humanity. A set of principles without which freedom, democracy and civilization rapidly turn into a brutal conflict between man and man. A brother's war. Not necessarily bloody. You can kill with contempt, lies, slander, hatred.

Niemen sang, “that individual with a bad word kills like a knife.” Oh, the planet is strange.

And I ask myself more and more: Can we inactive save decency?

Because a man has an amazing talent for trampling on those values that he puts loudest on his banners. You can have a Constitution on your mouth and at the same time break it. You can swing a Decalogue and unscrupulously harm another man. You can hold the Gospel in your hand, go to church, kneel before the altar, and then go out on the street and despise strangers, refugees, weaker, otherwise thinking.

One can talk about God and at the same time forget about man.

And this is most likely the top moral disaster of our time. We don't deficiency rules. We have more than enough. We don't want to live by them.

I am most afraid not of people who say, "I don't believe." I am more afraid of those who are absolutely certain that God is on their side — so they are allowed to demean, disfellowship, judge, and hate.

Because evil seldom comes present with the word “evil”. Most frequently it comes dressed as good, patriotism, religion, justice or defence of values.

And the Gospel remains a ruthless test.

He doesn't ask how many times you've kneeled.

He says, What you did to the another man.