Dear God, forgive me that I have been an atheist all my life. Not because I chose to be but because from my childhood on no one took me to church. I was brought up in an atheist world. I admire the Russian Orthodox Church, and these days I’ve started to value it, because if it had not been for the church, there would have been no Muscovy, and that was the foundation of our state. And in my own defence, please remember that I, along with millions of other atheists, saved the motherland. By doing so, indirectly, we saved your Orthodox Church. I’ve come to pray for the recovery of my wife, please, God. And forgive me. Because for my entire life I have been a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.