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Home»Articles»“Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Articles September 29, 20182 Mins Read

“Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”

Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” (Ericson, Edward E. Jr. (October 1985) “Solzhenitsyn – Voice from the Gulag,” Eternity, pp. 23–24)

I wonder why we continue to fail to learn this lesson. I also wonder why it is so hard for a generation who gets this to pass it on to future generations.

We see this cycle repeated over and over in the Book of Mormon with a few exceptions. Perhaps we will finally have Zion when we have figured out how to make it stick.

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