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Offline Last Tradhican

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Re: Live Not By Lies - an essay by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2021, 11:03:51 AM »
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    • Quote from: StLouisIX on July 28, 2020, 08:44:12 PM
    Live Not By Lies

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn

    Solzhenitsyn penned this essay in 1974 and it circulated among Moscow's intellectuals at the time. It is dated Feb. 12, the same day that secret police broke into his apartment and αrrєѕтed him. The next day he was exiled to West Germany. The essay is a call to moral courage and serves as light to all who value truth.


    Source: http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/SolhenitsynLies.php
    Nice article, but take it with a grain of salt. As a man who lost his country to ƈσmmυɳιsm, I'll explain:

    I read  Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile, it was very insightful, but I do not see anything special in Solzhenitsyn's life that has not have been lived by Catholics that have been through the ƈσmmυɳιsm. He was an atheist and a communist, that converted to some religion of his own, maybe one can call it Russian Orthodox. As I read the book, I found it entertaining, however because he was not a Catholic, I took everything with a grain of salt. In the country of blind men, the one eyed man is a king. Compared to the lҽϝƚιsƚ nuts we have today,  Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Solzhenitsyn are saints.

    Solzhenitsyn really strained a gnat and swallowed a camel, because he died outside of the Church. Always keep that in mind, as you read what he wrote. Rat poison is 99% nutritious food, it is the 1% that will kill you.

    My priest, the late Fr. Carl Pulvermacher O.F.M. Cap (R.I.P.), always said to us, "You cannot lie, even to save the world". A Solzhenitsyn article titled "Live Not by Lies", should be to a Catholic, akin to  "Ocean Water is Salty". The same goes for Solzhenitsyn's "profound discovery" that  "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened". Any real Catholic on the street going back to the beginning till today could have told us the same thing.

    For the world, life is like a race where you are allowed to run any way you wish, except you are not allowed to use your legs. You can run on your elbows, you can roll, you can run on your knees.... The Catholic Faith LIVED are your legs. Solzhenitsyn's way was just a more efficient way of the world. Solzhenitsyn is in hell along with Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, because they never ran on their legs.
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    Re: Live Not By Lies - an essay by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    « Reply #16 on: February 09, 2021, 02:53:05 AM »
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    • I take Alexander Solzhenitsyn's moral views with a pinch of salt.  He frequently cheated on his first wife with a multitude of women saying it was necessary for his research and creative processes and then he left her for a much younger woman.  He gave her no financial support, either, despite been comfortable. 

    It was his new "wife" who ended up giving his first wife some money.  She had better morals that he did.

    He is bigged up in western nations but the Russians know he was a flawed character. 
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    Re: Live Not By Lies - an essay by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    « Reply #17 on: April 19, 2021, 10:15:39 PM »
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