worth Praying for Atheists to ... Antony Flew  |
| Karin Bulland |
I used to be an avowed atheist and all religious did not interest me. I did not understand how can believe in God, and why to pray. Pray to whom and why? I was just a typical atheist ... and got to know God.
Now I have read of a woman of similar is happening to me. It reminds me of my way, even if my way is not so difficult was like her. It does, however, an interesting way the acclaimed humanism in question, the flag of atheism is so much as swung against Christianity. She says: "Your world is crumbling, as she realizes that behind the veneer of humanism is not different than their own advantage and contempt and hatred for those who think differently."
The day I was to do some atheist websites and could go again with what Self-righteousness can be called great humanistic goals proclaimed and the other pursues everything religious and sentenced. How to offend those who think differently, how to shrink even from falsehood and ignorance of religious not announce the make plain to the many atheist does not even notice how ridiculous he makes himself in his half-knowledge in his attempt to demonize religious arguments.
This woman experienced the "humanism" in the atheistic East ... he seems to be very similar to how we know him today in the free world can learn.
Now for the way the woman
"Praying for communists pay" Why a former red-hot Communist Christians today to ask for forgiveness, by Matthias Pankau
Bulland Karin, born 1954, social worker and mother of a grown-up daughter, was after a successful professional career in the GDR political persecution and forced divorce. Today it is a popular speaker at many Christian events
From Marx to Jesus - so you could sum up the life of Karen Bulland. Once Vorzeigefunktionärin and ambassador to the communist workers 'and peasants' state will soon be uncomfortable. They can deliver in psychiatry. When she comes out again, it is a broken woman, tried several times to commit suicide. But then encounters Karin Bulland Jesus. Seidem sees herself as an ambassador of the love of Jesus. Their message: to Jesus can come at any!
for peace and justice
Bulland Karin, born 1954, grew up in Thuringia. At school she learns that the SED alone can guarantee peace and justice. Marx, Engels, Lenin are their "gods". As the young woman is very athletic, it remains the East German government not hidden. Your success as a competitive athlete enter their medals and additional recognition of the cooperative. It becomes a diplomat in tracksuits. For large events, it stands at the lectern and tried to convince the youth of socialism. After school makes them an education as a teacher, but soon the works council of the district - local government - in Altenburg, near Leipzig.
first time here, she looks behind the scenes of socialism. Your world is crumbling, as she realizes that behind the veneer of humanism is not different from one's own benefit and contempt and hatred for dissenters.
straitjacket in psychiatry
you is working hard for equal rights is not a "line-loyal" citizens. Therefore, it falls out of favor with the SED. What happens in the summer of 1985, sounds like a Thriller: Karin Bulland sits in her office when the door opens and two men . Come storming She gets a syringe, then she is put in a straitjacket and deal with the pretext that the epileptic seizures, it has from time to time to do, admitted to the psychiatric ward. Again and again she is abused. When they threatened the staff to view them, they experienced the hell.
Karin Bulland is moved to a windowless, dark room, strapped to a cot there, so they do not move anymore. For days, her medications are injected, it is so long tortured with electric shocks until they no longer feel his arms and legs. "They wanted to ruin me, wipe my memory," says Karin Bulland in tears. But still however they do not doubt the system, but only to the people. "I believed still in socialism" that Karin Bulland the "treatment" survives in psychiatry, she owes her
then nine-year-old daughter, who at the time lives with his grandmother. She went to her mother on her own and secretly sneaks onto the station. When she discovered her mother in the dark isolated room, she informed her grandmother that strongly makes sure that they are at after months of discussions 6th May 1988 releases.
A prayer episodes
But her life seems destroyed. She sits in a wheelchair can not move her left arm, has almost daily epileptic seizures - all of the following three years of psychiatry. Multiple tries to take her own life. Also on 25 March 1991. But then she goes on her knees, her right arm to the sky and shouts, "If there is anyone who can help me, then let me live"
The following night, she says, having found Jesus. Out of curiosity, she bought a Bible, she almost devours. When she discovered the story of how Jesus heals an epileptic child, she prayed: "My Lord and my God, your child I want to be" Since then she has
had no more attacks, can walk, move her arm. Looking back, she is sure that people have prayed for them. At events she says now of what has happened to them, Christians ask for forgiveness for what was done to them in the name of communism. Her advice: "pay to pray for Communists. I myself am an answer to prayer. "
Karin Bulland Anyone can ask whether it is her so taken. I was once hopeless before God and begged him in similar terms to help me and he helped in an incredible manner what to be an intimate believing atheists to a man lies. To a man who now has a good life, better than any atheist who reads these lines. How do I know? Because I myself was an atheist and it was a "damn boring and useless life" was.
