"Man Has Forgotten God" - Solzhenitsyn

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Before I ever asked them, in 1983, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had already anticipated and answered the questions I have been earnestly asking myself for only the past two decades. He was way ahead of me. I was late in asking: “What has happened? What is wrong in the US? What has gone so wrong in the West, in the world”? He had already witnessed the fruition of the evil he diagnosed and was good enough to share it with us while we were still in the early stages of a disease. His prescience literally leaps out of his words of 43 years ago to describe our plight today - and our trajectory. So far, we have not acted effectively and unless we reverse course and decide to stop it, all will be lost.

And it is a dis - ease. The established religion of materialism, whose central, obligatory creed is atheism - that mankind itself is unlimited and thus the ultimate authority - cost upwards of 100 million lives in the 20th century. Who could be at “ease” knowing such a fact? In light of that fact, what sentient, reasoning person could be at ease with the trajectory of Western societies if not the entire world - given the most basic familiarity with every metric - in the first quarter of this, the 21st century? The Book of Daniel instantly comes to mind, because the handwriting is, indeed on the wall.

In 1983, Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Templeton Prize. It was in his acceptance speech that he described the atheism at work, along with intentional hatreds sown by Marxists in Russia as it became the Soviet Union. Is there any doubt that today’s Marxists (also based in the academy and deep state apparatus, but calling themselves the “democrat party”) have been in the business of instilling the very same atheism, hatreds and divisions? They tell the same (or new-and-improved) blatant lies told in Russia back then to achieve the same political ends.

Central to this malevolent undertaking in pre-revolutionary Russia, was the academy - the “intellectuals”. It doesn’t take a genius to see the parallels which have been at work in the West, beginning during the heady times following the end of WWII. Today, these cadres are in total control of the academic machine and staff the entire deep state and legacy “media”. None of this is by accident. As a direct result, the list of existential issues today, for those with courage enough to abstain from bread and circuses - to merely survey the horizon - is beyond sobering. It is terrifying. As predicted, when something eventually breaks, the demand for a totalitarian solution will be irresistible. who will be organized to provide it?

In a sense, our plight is even worse that in pre-Soviet Russia. So well has the ground been prepared by the “long march through the institutions” that near half the population now find complete meaning in their lives in the singular issue or “cause” of the day. Who needs God, after all, if one is surrounded by “bad people” who do not subscribe to the latest “thing” announced by the left, as blared incessantly by what was once media. Envy and hatred appear to be sufficient substitutes for belief in God when it comes to directing the attention and activities of large swaths of society in this strictly materialist society.

I have stated my pessimism on these pages for a fair number of years and earnestly tried to understand why I have had this strong sense. Well, here is understanding. If you have the fortitude, I invite you to read it.

If you like, also consider reading a new book: God, the Science, The Evidence. Contrary to ubiquitous secularist/materialist “education” of the past decades, a rational, scientific assessment of the cosmos we observe (and the life within it) provides clear and convincing evidence of a Creator God (an intelligent designer of the universe). It is clear that this belief demands far less faith than the “many worlds” hypothesis, (infinite, in-principle un-observable, additional universes!) dreamed up to account for the fine tuning of the physical constants of the universe we inhabit.

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I have never read him in full. I probably should.

My conclusion is the evil works by perverting good virtues into their opposite. In order for this to work, you have to deceive ordinary good people by chipping away at virtues until the virtue has no resemblance to the original.

Racism has been redefined such that accepting good values or rejecting bad values is now racist. The meaning of racist has no connection to the original. It has no meaning at to guide individual human to human interaction

If some group as adopted sloth as a value and you reject sloth, you are racist. If you have good work ethic, you are racist.

I have written before on this same perversion of charity. Charity is Christian value to love other humans. This love is fostered by human to human interaction. This is why charity is a good societal value. The receiver’s love of humans grows through gratitude to another human. That human’s, the giver, love of humans grows due to the joy they receive. Finally, observers of this charity love of humans grows by witnessing. This requires human to human interaction. None of this growth and reinforcement of love of humans happens with organized charity. Even if the cause of the organization is successful.

I use charity because it illustrates how evil can displace a positive virtue that benefits individuals and groups. The change doesn’t have to start out as obviously evil. It just has to displace the good.

We spend 900 times the amount of resources on the education of children with learning disabilities as we do on gifted We have entire communities with 75 percent of the population in need of help.
These things can only happen if positive values are perverted for the ordinarily good person.

When the leader of the Catholic Church commands people to do a specific action, he displaces freewill Without free will no individual can make the choices necessary to become better He doesn’t even need to disguise it as teaching virtues

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The essential point I’m thinking about in this post is the left’s eternal and downright religious adherence to their own essentialist moral supremacy. For them, atheism is bedrock. Instead of living by eternal principles, they find meaning in the “cause du jour” (the latest thing - to the death!).That, in their view, derives only from their own self-image. Thus, it may not be questioned or even discussed. As with earlier religions, their dicta must be obeyed on pain of destruction. Sound familiar as you read history? (That’s why that, too, must be revised).

In the very practical sense, this set of beliefs make a decent society impossible. The world as I see it ought to be “live and let live” - “do unto others”. The left, on the other hand, demands universal conformity, on pain of, well pain, excommunication (cancelling, de-banking, etc.) or death; rather like the mullahs. Otherwise put, things progress by reasoned debate and persuasion to accept a few principles regarding other beings in the real world on one hand, or being compelled to adhere to irrational ideological, abstract constructs in obedience to the “inherent goodness and rightepousness” of leftist tyrants; consent versus compulsion. Only, in my view, does allegiance to an eternal set of moral principles permit human flourishing. Further, that flourishing encompasses both a material realm and a spiritual realm; this means rejection of essentialist materialism. The brand of materialism practiced and demanded by the educational establishment (the state whose main value is power), denies as its central principle that an other causes besides matter and energy could possibly exist in the universe we know.

That materialism, we now know from science and reason, is wholly inadequate to explain the causation of either the universe we know we inhabit or of life - and especially the human mind and ability to comprehend the cosmos scientifically. That is why rejection of intelligent design hypotheses are a priori required and why binary sex has become the hill worth dying upon. If they can define sex by fiat, is there any understanding which may not be eliminated by fiat?

The short version is that instead of gratitude to God for our existence, for meaning, we are required to owe fealty to self-described moral superiors who arose by random processes and whose existence (as our own) is entirely without meaning. L’chaim! (to life)!

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Indeed! It is only by performing good deeds which arise from free will as an independent moral agent that we can actually BE good. As you observe, the left often begins by reversing the meaning of words to enact wholesale manipulation. Because they define themselves as ‘good’, nothing they do can be evil (or even merely wrong). The most telling attribute and evidence of their evil: 1. the sin of pride = seeking power; 2. idolatry - setting themselves up as God-like in their belief in their own infallibility.

These two facets of leftism, the religion, reveal the truth of their real nature. First, any act is justified in pursuing their own power (“By any means necessary” has been repeated ad nauseam - they mean it!). Second, they are so certain of their moral superiority they refuse to explain or debate - only command; they take any question as an attack and respond with threats, bullying or outright violence. Nothing further is required to show their true nature.

In sum, since they permit no discussion or reason, ultimately they have created the zero-sum game they desire. For us, we either win or lose - and so with all the actual progress humanity has made after expenditure of much blood and treasure over centuries. They are about the business of creating their version of utopia: a delightful blend of atheism plus feudalism.

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