My story

I am a lawyer, I am married, and I have four children. I have been working in politics for thirteen years. When working in politics I was the first Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Czechoslovakia, the first Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Slovak Republic, the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic Government, an MP of the National Council and the Minister of Justice. Currently I work again as an attorney

Meeting with Christ

I grew up in a catholic family. We were five children and a religion was a part of our life style. I haven’t experienced any breaking points in relation to religion. Social sciences and social relations were a center of my interest from my youth. At first only instinctively I started to notice events around me in a society and to compare them with religious teachings by which they could be explained or contradicted. Results impressed me. For example the communism justified its fight against religion and the Church by saying that the communism is a scientific and the religion is an unscientific teaching, which nevertheless will perish under a burden of scientific discoveries in one-two generations. The main philosophical statement of the Marxism was the one saying that the God does not exist but the substance is the basis of all and it is eternal and endless. Then however a theory of the universe creation in a form of the Big bang came. It happened sometimes in the second half of the 60s. This theory is valid till now and all other physical and also astronomical discoveries confirm it. Communists however could not accept it, as it contradicted their claim that the substance is eternal and endless. It results from the theory of the Big bang that the substance is not eternal but it began in the Big bang. Till now the valid hypothesis was that in a certain moment the universe can stop expanding but on the contrary it will start shrinking till the state of the Big bang again, which basically means till the one spot. If this hypothesis was valid, then the substance would not be able to be endless but definite till the spot when the universe will start shrinking back again. Recently I have read that scientists have already dropped out the theory of the repeated shrinking of the space till the one spot. The Big bang however contradicted the basic philosophical argument of Marxism. The Church didn’t have problems with accepting the theory of the Big bang. Communism, which claimed about itself that it is a scientific theory, was refuted by new scientific discoveries and the Church, about which Communists claimed that it is unscientific, had no problems with new scientific discoveries.

Other observation was rather practical.

In August 1989 I was arrested by then State Security and I was charged with revolting and subverting the socialist order. They put me in a prison in a Judicial palace in Bratislava and interrogations started. At the very beginning of the interrogation I have had a condition that I want to have the whole Holy Scripture at a cell, the Old and the New Testament and I will not testify till I don’t have it. An interrogator, a Major of the State Security, was brought up short and although he could provide me the Holy Scripture, as they had plenty of Holy Scriptures seized at borders, they didn’t want to do it for reasons of prestige. I wrote to my wife to send me the Holy Scripture to the prison but one by one volume in a time, as I will be able to read them. I read the Holy Scripture in a cell then, slowly, so I had a chance to think about the read part and till then I refused to testify. So it happened that I didn’t testify a sentence during the whole interrogation with an explanation that I still didn’t have the whole Holy Scripture at a cell. Sometimes in October 1989 the interrogation was concluded. There were five of us, so called Bratislava’s five and interrogators would be very happy to discover contradictions in our statements as they were interrogating each of us separately. They could not find any contradictions in my statement as there simply was no statement made. Persisting on having the Holy Scripture at a cell helped me also in all practical sense. An interrogator could not poke in differences between my statement and statements of my co-alleged friends. At last it all turned out fantastically, because communism fell. I got to the Federal Government and two weeks after releasing from the prison I became superior to the interrogator who wanted to interrogate me in the prison. God’s intervention is sometimes really unpredictable.