Dr. Couch, was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn a Christian?
I believe without a doubt he was. He had been imprisoned by the
Communist for years in their Siberian Gulag for speaking out against
their regime. He wrote heavily when he was released. Below are some
interesting quotes from his book The Solzhenitsyn Reader (1983).
“When I was a child I remember hearing a
number of older people offer the following explanations for the
disasters that fell on the Russian people [60 million died in the
Russian Revolution; 20 million died in WW II]. ‘Men have forgotten God;
that’s why these things have happened!’ What I know of history I could
not put it more accurately.”
“Imperceptibly, through the decades of
gradual erosion, the meaning of life in the West has ceased to be seen
as anything more lofty than the ‘pursuit’ of happiness. People in the
West consider it embarrassing to appeal to eternal concepts. Yet it is
not considered shameful to make daily concessions to an integral evil.
The West is ineluctably slipping toward the abyss. Western societies are
losing more and more of their religious essence as they thoughtlessly
yield up their younger generation to atheism.”
He wrote this almost 25 years ago, and since,
we have embalmed and buried Western civilization as we know it. We are
now waiting for the wrath and the judgment to fall, as we know it will!
Thanks for asking.
Dr. Mal Couch
