Couch, was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn a Christian?
I believe without a doubt he was. He had been imprisoned by the Communist for years in their Siberian Gulag for speaking out against their regime. He wrote heavily when he was released. Below are some interesting quotes from his book The Solzhenitsyn Reader (1983). When I was a child I remember hearing a number of older people offer the following explanations for the disasters that fell on the Russian people [60 million died in the Russian Revolution; 20 million died in WW II]. Men have forgotten God; thats why these things have happened! What I know of history I could not put it more accurately. Imperceptibly, through the decades of gradual erosion, the meaning of life in the West has ceased to be seen as anything more lofty than the pursuit of happiness. People in the West consider it embarrassing to appeal to eternal concepts. Yet it is not considered shameful to make daily concessions to an integral evil. The West is ineluctably slipping toward the abyss. Western societies are losi
