ATHEISM
As Vice President, George
Bush represented the U.S. at the funeral of former Soviet leader
Leonid Brezhnev. Bush was deeply moved by a silent protest carried
out by Brezhnev's widow. She stood motionless by the coffin until
seconds before it was closed. Then, just as the soldiers touched the
lid, Brezhnev's wife performed an act of great courage and hope, a
gesture that must surely rank as one of the most profound acts of
civil disobedience ever committed: She reached down and made the sign
of the cross on her husband's chest. There in the citadel of secular,
atheistic power, the wife of the man who had run it all hoped that
her husband was wrong. She hoped that there was another life, and
that that life was best represented by Jesus who died on the cross,
and that the same Jesus might yet have mercy on her husband.
From Christianity Today
Oct. 3/94
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