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“A World Split Apart” created such a clamor at least in part because it was a highly complex speech that seemed to address several different issues at the same time. To some critics, it wasn’t even very well organized. University of Chicago historian William H. McNeill complained that he saw in Solzhenitsyn’s text “only incoherence and confusion.” 1 New York Times columnist James Reston, obviously offended by much of what Solzhenitsyn said, grumbled that “it sounded like the wanderings of a mind split apart.”2 These criticisms are not without substance.
That said, Solzhenitsyn’s several propositions were perfectly lucid in themselves, even if not set out in an order that led naturally from one to the other. They are too detailed to be examined separately with equal attention, but they essentially consist of some 15 propositions, usually defined under specific headings in the text as originally written. They are as follows:
- The West has become spiritually exhausted and thus cannot provide a legitimate model for Russia to pursue once the country is no longer ruled by communists.
- The issue at stake for all humankind is nothing less than a fight for the future of Earth. Battle has already been joined. “The forces of Evil have begun their decisive offensive.”
- The West, and especially the U.S., has lost its moral clarity. One consequence of this had been the triumph of communists in South-East Asia at the end of the Vietnam War.
- The West has lost its will to resist evil aggression.
- The primary reason for humankind’s woes and the West’s current weakness is a consequence of ideas that came to the fore at the Renaissance: that man is independent of God and has responsibility to no one but himself
The Faith of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Part 1 - C.S. Lewis Institute
whut I say …~… Solzhenitsyn has nothing to do with
whut I asked you St

. I came of age at the peak of the Vietnam War. I had moral clarity on opposing it. Why do you admire a man if you are an American who said America is:
- spiritually exhausted
- has lost its moral clarity
- lost its will to resist evil aggression
- is weak as a consequence of ideas that man is independent of God and has responsibility to no one but himself.
- West’s current weakness is a consequence of ideas that came to the fore at the Renaissance: that man is independent of God and has responsibility to no one but himself.
Solzhenitsyn never bothered to get to know the people in the “materialistic“ soulless nation that brought him in. Screw him he has nothing to offer for what’s going on right now with a lawless Republican Party killing our democratic institutions as directed by a handful of billionaires.
Solzhenitsyn I doubt never attended a black church in his Christianity, where no one there man is independent God and his responsibility no one but himself.
But then you like to avoid talking about black Christians who vote for Democrats St

.Dont you?