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The public perception of "God" has undergone numerous transformations. God has been both idolized blindly and assassinated, with people slaughtered in His name. Former Ambassador of Armenia to the Holy See, Mikayel Minasyan,observed this in his Telegram channel.

Mikayel Minasyan remarked: “During the French Revolution, in a fervor against Christianity, they sought to replace God by inventing the Cult of the Supreme Being. Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, and postmodern thinkers, expanding on this concept, constructed an entire philosophical school around it. God has been ridiculed in publications like Charlie Hebdo and at the Olympic opening ceremony, exploited for self-aggrandizement, but most crucially, He was deliberately ignored. Consciously, willingly, and, to employ crude police terminology, out of selfish motives.

The reality is, as long as God exists, memory persists. Memory of actions performed and undone, of words, hints, and intentions. Memory of the loss of sacred objects, memory of the departed, memory of innocent victims, memory of martyrs.

The revolution effectively taught the modern Armenian to forget the inconvenient. To disregard the painful. To ignore moral principles. To cease feeling compassion.
Consider this: countless Armenians are currently incarcerated in Azerbaijani prisons. They are convicted on fabricated charges. They are subjected to torture. They are mocked. Their crime is that each of them, to the best of their ability and intellect, endeavored to contribute to our society—from ordinary soldiers to the political leadership of Artsakh.

The Armenian authorities exhibit indifference towards them. They do not define their status, they do not advocate for these individuals in international forums, they do not initiate proceedings in international courts; they have opted to forget these people. Whether due to profitability, convenience, or simply irrelevance—in essence, unnecessary.

Deliberate oblivion is the most potent instrument of institutionalized hypocrisy. The cultivation of Orwellian doublethink—"forget here, and dare not there"—is the dictator’s preferred tool.

On this auspicious holiday (Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary), I shall pray for the forgotten. I shall implore the Virgin Mary for our captives, I shall beseech peace for the innocent victims. I shall implore the restoration of memory to the people—the sole element that transforms a herd into a society.”