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The Somber Prophecy of a Russian Novelist. The Somber Prophecy of a Russian Novelist During his Templeton Prize Lecture, May 1983, in London, the Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn answered the …More
The Somber Prophecy of a Russian Novelist.

The Somber Prophecy of a Russian Novelist

During his Templeton Prize Lecture, May 1983, in London, the Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn answered the question why the Russian revolution which killed some sixty million people happened. His answer, “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this happened.”

The World Will Be Possessed By the Demon of Evil

Solzhenitsyn quoted another famous Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoevsky who predicted that “revolution must necessarily begin with atheism.” And, “The world will be saved only after it has been possessed by the demon of evil.” Solzhenitsyn adds, “Whether it really will be saved we shall have to wait and see.”

West Experiences A Communist Invasion From Within

The Russian novelist foretold that the West has yet to experience a Communist invasion. He saw this coming because of a gradual erosion of religion from within, which – quote – “is more dangerous than any attempt to assault religion violently from without.” He points out that in the West “the concepts of good and evil have been ridiculed for several centuries” and that it is not considered shameful to make concessions to evil.

Hatred is the Mark of Today’s “Free World”

Solzhenitsyn saw that “Atheist teachers in the West are bringing up a younger generation in a spirit of hatred of their own society.” And, “This eager fanning of the flames of hatred is becoming the mark of today’s free world.” He saw that “this deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself.”

The Solution

This is what Solzhenitsyn proposes as a solution, “We must first recognize the horror perpetrated not by some outside force, not by class or national enemies, but within each of us individually, and within every society. This is especially true of a free and highly developed society, for here, in particular, we have surely brought everything upon ourselves, of our own free will. We ourselves, in our daily unthinking selfishness, are pulling tight that noose…”
Joseph a' Christian
@Holy Cannoli - The Words of Jesus the Christ:
"...They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God. 42 Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. For from God I proceeded, and came; for I came not of myself, but he sent me: 43 Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. 44 You are of your father …More
@Holy Cannoli - The Words of Jesus the Christ:

"...They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God. 42 Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. For from God I proceeded, and came; for I came not of myself, but he sent me: 43 Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do."
Holy Cannoli
Lose the hate, Joey. You are simply demonstrating your ignorance of your own Church. 🤦
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The words of Pope Saint John Paul II :
I repeat what I said on the occasion of my visit to the Jewish Community in Rome, that we Christians recognize that the Jewish religious heritage is intrinsic to our own faith: “You are our elder brothers.”
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Lose the hate, Joey. You are simply demonstrating your ignorance of your own Church. 🤦
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The words of Pope Saint John Paul II :

I repeat what I said on the occasion of my visit to the Jewish Community in Rome, that we Christians recognize that the Jewish religious heritage is intrinsic to our own faith: “You are our elder brothers.”
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The statement was perfectly consistent with his lifelong work, from before the time when Karol Wojtyla as a young priest took part in drafting the groundbreaking 1965 Vatican II document that ended centuries of Christian anathema of the Jews. The document condemned “hatred and persecutions of the Jews,” affirmed the validity of Judaism as a religious way of life with which Catholics must establish relations of “mutual knowledge and respect” and repudiated the idea of “the Jewish people as one rejected, cursed, or guilty of deicide…”
Never one for pompous or pious speeches, the pontiff took often revolutionary steps to make that edict come true.

www.debka.com/pope-john-paul-…
Joseph a' Christian
@Holy Cannoli - The false jews of today, state in their Talmud that: the holy Virgin Mary was a prostitute. You are blind. The Apostles were all Jews, who believed in Jesus and gained freedom from their sins, Mary, Martha and many Jews the same. Jesus stated to the unbelieving jews that they are sons of satan.
This is basik, you should turn away from worldly books, such as Webster and study Holy …More
@Holy Cannoli - The false jews of today, state in their Talmud that: the holy Virgin Mary was a prostitute. You are blind. The Apostles were all Jews, who believed in Jesus and gained freedom from their sins, Mary, Martha and many Jews the same. Jesus stated to the unbelieving jews that they are sons of satan.
This is basik, you should turn away from worldly books, such as Webster and study Holy Skripture. This will help you from your ignorance and pride.
Stop being a worldly, jew boot licker, and learn the Christian Faith, The Way.
Holy Cannoli
Joey, You have little knowledge of Catholic teaching but lots of ego. Given the very slim possibility that you actually know the true teachings of the Catholic church, yet you deliberately intend to misrepresent those teachings, then you are sinning mortally. By the way, Jesus was a Jew.
What "No Salvation Outside the Church" Means
Outside The Church There Is No Salvation
Doctrinal Summary: ‘Extra …More
Joey, You have little knowledge of Catholic teaching but lots of ego. Given the very slim possibility that you actually know the true teachings of the Catholic church, yet you deliberately intend to misrepresent those teachings, then you are sinning mortally. By the way, Jesus was a Jew.

What "No Salvation Outside the Church" Means

Outside The Church There Is No Salvation

Doctrinal Summary: ‘Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus’

Is There Really "No Salvation Outside the Catholic Church?"

In addition to the above material, you desperately need to study www.amazon.com/…/1119295602.
Joseph a' Christian
@Holy Cannoli -
Outside The Catholic Church There Is No Salvation
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, The Athanasian Creed, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra: “Whoever wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.”
You are either very ignorant or very willful, you write against …
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@Holy Cannoli -

Outside The Catholic Church There Is No Salvation

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, The Athanasian Creed, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra: “Whoever wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.”

You are either very ignorant or very willful, you write against Catholic Church law.
threebells17
what a great mind- having read the Gulag Archipelago I realize that we are living in chilling times. The first chapters of this book should be required reading for all high school seniors. This book is a giant of literature!
Holy Cannoli
Jesus stated that, He is the Truth. Gloria tv is unwilling to state the truth about the jews. Pekuliar.
You are ɹɐᴉlnʞǝԀ and you need to be more careful about whom you insult.
Here's some news for you ʎǝoſ,
Jesus was a Jew. He was born of a Jewish mother, in Galilee, a Jewish part of the world. All of his friends, associates, colleagues, disciples, all of them were Jews. He regularly worshipped in …More
Jesus stated that, He is the Truth. Gloria tv is unwilling to state the truth about the jews. Pekuliar.

You are ɹɐᴉlnʞǝԀ and you need to be more careful about whom you insult.

Here's some news for you ʎǝoſ,

Jesus was a Jew. He was born of a Jewish mother, in Galilee, a Jewish part of the world. All of his friends, associates, colleagues, disciples, all of them were Jews. He regularly worshipped in Jewish communal worship, what we call synagogues. He preached from Jewish text, from the Bible. He celebrated the Jewish festivals. He went on pilgrimage to the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem where he was under the authority of priests.... He lived, was born, lived, died, taught as a Jew. This is obvious to any casual reader of the gospel text. What's striking is not so much that he was a Jew but that the gospels make no pretense that he wasn't. The gospels have no sense yet that Jesus was anything other than a Jew. The gospels don't even have a sense that he came to found a new religion, an idea completely foreign to all the gospel text, and completely foreign to Paul. That is an idea which comes about only later. So, to say that he was a Jew is saying a truism, is simply stating an idea that is so obvious on the face of it, one wonders it even needs to be said. But, of course, it does need to be said because we all know what happens later in the story, where it turns out that Christianity becomes something other than Judaism and as a result, Jesus in retrospect is seen not as a Jew, but as something else, as a founder of Christianity. But, of course, he was a Jew.
Holy Cannoli
ʎǝoſ 'ʎǝoſ 'ʎǝoſ,
Evidently you do not know what it means to be Christian. 🤦
Not all Christians are Catholic yet these individuals are indeed Christian since they follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. Some Catholics are not Christian in that they do NOT follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. Examples of these ostensible Catholics in name only abound includuing priests, bishops, cardinals and even …More
ʎǝoſ 'ʎǝoſ 'ʎǝoſ,
Evidently you do not know what it means to be Christian. 🤦

Not all Christians are Catholic yet these individuals are indeed Christian since they follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. Some Catholics are not Christian in that they do NOT follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. Examples of these ostensible Catholics in name only abound includuing priests, bishops, cardinals and even guess who?)

But over the past few years, conservative Catholic voices have emerged to criticize the pope’s approach and methods. Much of this criticism centers around Francis’s tacit approval of parish priests giving communion to divorced-and-remarried couples. It’s a controversial practice forbidden by the Catholic catechism on the grounds that divorce is not considered permissible. While Francis’s supporters defend his decision to, essentially, separate out (more rigid) church doctrine from (more lenient) parish practice, his critics argue that doing so threatens the moral consistency of the Catholic Church.

ʎǝoſ , you desperately need to be reprogrammed along with adding a touch of www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common+sense. 👌
Joseph a' Christian
Alexandr also wrote that it was NOT a russian revolution, rather it was a brutal genocide perpetrated by jews.
Jesus stated that, He is the Truth. Gloria tv is unwilling to state the truth about the jews. Pekuliar.
Joseph a' Christian
@Holy Cannoli Russian orthodox are schismatics, they are not Christians.
ONE Holy Catholic Church. ONE Faith of ONE Christ.
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The Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (a man with a fervent Russian Orthodox faith) not only exposed the follies, pretensions, and crimes of Marxist-Leninism but also testified to the power infused into the human spirit by its Maker. As a dissident, Solzhenitsyn proved such a nuisance to Soviet authorities that they deported him in 1974, leading him to take up residence in Montpelier …More
The Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (a man with a fervent Russian Orthodox faith) not only exposed the follies, pretensions, and crimes of Marxist-Leninism but also testified to the power infused into the human spirit by its Maker. As a dissident, Solzhenitsyn proved such a nuisance to Soviet authorities that they deported him in 1974, leading him to take up residence in Montpelier, Vermont.

Solzhenitsyn was an icon of freedom to the Western world, but he did not return the esteem it heaped on him. As a man of enormous Christian faith, he regarded the West as spiritually deteriorated, and he sometimes baffled supporters and critics alike with his criticisms of Western democracy. In a searing speech to Harvard's graduating class of 1978, he observed that "a decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today."

“The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries,” he also insisted, “more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?”
www.catholicworldreport.com/…/revisiting-alek…

What Solzhenitsyn had long predicted came to pass: the Soviet Union ceased to be. In 1994, at age 75, a bearded, patriarchal Solzhenitsyn returned from exile to his native Russia, where he was welcomed as a hero, the prophet of the post-Soviet era. But his home had become strange to him. He had imagined himself as the conscience of his native land, and he certainly commanded a great deal of cultural authority — he was given his own TV show, and in 2007 Vladimir Putin visited him personally to present him with a state medal. But he was never quite in step with the new Russia. To Solzhenitsyn, Russia meant the old Russia of the 19th century, a nostalgic, spiritual Russia of the soul. To Russians, Russia was something else — an increasingly Western and forward-looking and materialistic nation.

Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure near Moscow on 3 August 2008, at the age of 89.