Cannot suppress God

I recently came across this quotation from Ronald Regan’s famous Berlin speech, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”, June 12, 1987:

Years ago, before the East Germans began rebuilding their churches, they erected a secular structure: the television tower at Alexanderplatz. Virtually ever since, the authorities have been working to correct what they view as the tower’s one major flaw: treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every kind. Yet even today when the sun strikes that sphere, that sphere that towers over all Berlin, the light makes the sign of the cross. There in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be suppressed.

The Fernsehturm (Television Tower) was commissioned under the atheist ideals of East Germany’s leadership.  With the cross so prominent a symbol over the city, Berliners called the Tower, Rache des Papstes, or “Pope’s Revenge”.

In my wanderings around a city with so many not knowing Christ, the cross reflected off the Tower on a sunny day is a reminder that God cannot be suppressed.  <><