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American Minute with Bill Federer
Feb. 13 - |
"Man
has forgotten God, that is why this has happened" was Russian author
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's response when questioned about the decline of
modern culture.
This echoed another Russian author, Dostoevsky,
in whose book, The Brothers Karamazov, the character Ivan Karamazov
contended that if there is no God, "everything is permitted."
Solzhenitsyn
was imprisoned for eight years by Joseph Stalin, as he described in
his autobiographical lecture, printed in the Nobel Foundation's
publication, Les Prix Nobel, 1971:
"I was arrested on the
grounds of what the censorship had found in my correspondence with a
school friend, mainly because of certain disrespectful remarks about
Stalin, although we referred to him in disguised terms.
A further basis for the 'charge' were drafts of stories and reflections which had been found in my map case."
He
was Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, but the Communist
government did not allow him to leave the country to accept it.
He
began publishing "The Gulag Archipelago" in 1973, and in response to
international pressure, the Soviet Union expelled him on FEBRUARY 13,
1974.
The following year in Washington, D.C., Alexander Solzhenitsyn warned:
"I...call
upon America to be more careful...because they are trying to weaken
you...to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this
fearful threat-one that has never been seen before in the history of
the world." |
Recommended books:
Three Secular Reasons Why America Should be Under God
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