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 In his article "Responsibility Is the Antidote to Tyranny - The timeless wisdom of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn," Surit Dasgupta writes - "When the Russian Revolution erupted, many innocent lives were lost at the hands of furious mobs acting at the behest of the "oppressed." This coincided with a massive loss of life on the battlefields of the first World War. Before the Revolution and before the hypnotic frenzy of the mob, Russia had been a flawed but thoroughly devout, traditional country. She was soon fed an overwhelming amount of socialist and utopian ideas from Europe. This import of radical socialist ideology came after a combination of liberalism and nihilism supplanted the traditional axiom of Orthodoxy that had held the country together. Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote about this embryonic era of nihilistic movements in his novel Demons. "Dostoevsky argued that for a morally upright society, or a society striving for moral uprightness, to sustain itself, it must have a foundation that is not only firm but also transcendent; and by being transcendent, even Kings and Queens must subject themselves to it. For Dostoevsky, that foundation had to be God. Once that foundation is removed, the ground becomes ripe for artificial religion — i.e., hateful ideologies — to grow and spread like wildfire. Man is an innately religious animal, and he must have an axiom by which to live and exist, either devouringly or fruitfully. "That is why Solzhenitsyn echoed Dostoevsky when he said the following: 'But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened."' What does it mean not to forget God? That is an interesting question, and it is closely tied to the first question about walking in the face of evil." Here in the West, we too have forgotten God; that's why we have killed over 60 million of our unborn children in the U.S. alone... all in the name of "liberation" and "equality" - hateful ideologies when divorced from the loving, transcendent God of Christian revelation. Get the whole story: read the full article & get our free weekly newsletter: subscribe below! |