They did it twice, by the way. ZIPRA terrorists shot down Air Rhodesia Flight 827 five months later, killing all 59 people aboard. At one of the funeral services for those lost in the first Air Rhodesia attack, Rev: JR Da Costa spoke saying, "One listens for loud condemnation by the President of the United States, himself a man from the Bible-Baptist belt, and again the silence is deafening. One listens for loud condemnation by the Pope, by the Chief Rabbi, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, by all who love the name of God. Again the silence is deafening." Later in his funeral speech he lays blame at the feet of the Marxist ideal which places no value on human life, and it is now evident to me that poisonous ideology which had crept in to every aspect of western culture and government was the reason for the silence from the Western world. But his most pointed criticism, of that which was supposed to be the bulwark against this evil ideology", was the church itself. "Who else? The churches? Oh yes, I fear so. For too long, too many people have been allowed to call themselves "believers" when they have been nothing of the kind. Those who believe must act. Yet churches, even in our own dangerous times, are more than half-empty all the time." The Reverend went on to say, "In many war areas, Africans are told to "burn their Bibles". If this call was made to us, what sort of Bibles would be handed in? Would they be dog-eared from constant use; well-thumbed and marked? Would they be pristine in their virgin loveliness, in the same box in which they were first received? There are tens of millions of all races who call themselves believers, who never enter any house of prayer and praise. Many are folk who scream loudest against communism, yet do not themselves help to defeat these Satanic forces by means of prayer, and praise and religious witness." This same sentiment was echoed by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who responded to the cause of the Bolshevik revolution when he said, "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.”" That's why I am careful to say that Rhodesia is not a warning simply to "whites" because our nation is not simply "white". Don't get me wrong, in order for a nation to function (and what makes a nation that very thing) is a people who share the same culture, speak the same language, look the same, and to a very large extent, share the same values and ideals. But a nation, much like the soul of a person, is comprised of a much deeper conviction than that. Rhodesia was Christian. Our nations are Christian. And the only defense against Bolshevism is not Fascism, Tribalism, or any other man made political or social construct. It is pure, unadulterated, devotion to Jesus the Christ. You want to save the West? Get under that cross.