December 31st is the birthday of both Alexander Solzhenitsyn (pictured).
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And December 31st, 1851 was the birthday of Frederick Selous. (He died on January 4th, 1917.)
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This is also the birthday of Dr. Cynthia Koelker, SurvivalBlog’s Medical Editor.
Tom Basile: Top 5 government failures of 2010s
Tom Basile
(2019, December 31)
Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tom-basile-the-top-5-government-failures-of-the-2010s
Here are the top five government failures that defined the decade:
ObamaCare
Urban violence
Marijuana and opioids
Social welfare spending
Immigration
When our ‘self appointed elites’ through their money, power and with their FAKE NEWS learned Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a >Christian, the ‘self appointed elites’ turned Solzhenitsyn into basically a ‘never mention again’ ~ person.
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[From CrisisMagazine site December 18, 2912 in part] =
“In 1978, Solzhenitsyn caused great controversy when he criticized the secularism and hedonism of the West in his famous commencement address at Harvard University. Condemning the nations of the so-called free West for being morally bankrupt, he urged that it was time “to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.”
The emphasis on rights instead of responsibilities was leading to “the abyss of human decadence” and to the committing of “moral violence against young people, such as motion pictures full of pornography, crime, and horror.” At the root of the modern malaise was the modern philosophy of “rationalistic humanism or humanistic autonomy,” which declared the “autonomy of man from any higher authority above him.” Such a view “could also be called anthropocentrity, with man seen as the centre of all.”
It is ultimately of little matter whether the sickness that is slowly poisoning the West is given the labels that Solzhenitsyn affixed to it, or whether we prefer to give it the name of secular fundamentalism. The disease by any other name would be as deadly.
Furthermore, this disease is not merely destructive but self-destructive. It has no long-term future. Although secular fundamentalist “progressives” might believe in a future “golden age,” such an age does not exist. The future that they herald is merely one of gathering gloom and ever darkening clouds. This fate has ever been so for those who proclaim their “Pride.” They have nothing to expect in the future but their fall.
As for the Christian, he has nothing to fear but his falling into the pride of despair. If he avoids becoming despondent and retains his humility, he will receive the gift of hope which is its fruit. Where there is hope there is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
As we await the fall of the latest manifestation of secular fundamentalism, we need to remember that the culture of death is a parasite. It does not give life; it only destroys or corrupts it. Like all successful parasites it kills itself when it kills the host culture on which it feeds. It is not merely deadly but suicidal. It is unsustainable. It cannot survive.” …