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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Atheism

Remembering Solzhenitsyn’s profound speech on the centenary of his birth. - National Review

Discussion

Sat, 12/15/18

… back when people were saying things that would still be powerful 35 years later.

The West has yet to experience a Communist invasion; religion here remains free. But the West’s own historical evolution has been such that today it too is experiencing a drying up of religious consciousness. It too has witnessed racking schisms, bloody religious wars, and rancor, to say nothing of the tide of secularism that, from the late Middle Ages onward, has progressively inundated the West. This gradual sapping of strength from within is a threat to faith that is perhaps even more dangerous than any attempt to assault religion violently from without.

Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.

Sat, 12/15/18
One of my favorite authors. I just listened to “The First Circle” on Audible. Incredible critique of atheist communism in its worst form. Note: Anyone interested in listening to it needs to get “In the First Circle” not “The First Circle.” The latter was the censured version which is nuetered of it’s scathing critique of Stalinism.