In the Chelsea Journal article by Ivan Holinaty, “The Meaning of Alexander Solzhenitsyn,” one only has to replace Russia with America to receive its ominous warning for today.  The article reads:

“While Russia’s (America’s) society is structured to prevent and restrict the action of the individual’s conscience, in the West this is (was) not so.  There, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to act according to conscience are (were) all recognized rights.  Yet, the West has failed to act.  Why?  In Solzhenitsyn’s view, it is lack of courage, conviction and strength:

“‘One psychological tendency of (American) man is always astonishing.  When happy and carefree, he fears even the slightest shadow of trouble on the edges of his existence; he tries to ignore the sufferings of others (as well as those lying in store for him); he gives way in many matters, including those that are truly important and morally essential – all in order to prolong his happiness.  Yet suddenly, when he finds himself in great extremity, miserable, naked, stripped of everything that enhances life, he summons up the firmness to carry on to the final step, giving up his life but not his principles.’

“The fault of the West (America) is that it has quietly, perhaps unknowingly, surrendered its conscience and its responsibility to the rest of humanity for the sake of its own material prosperity and desire to live life as happily as possible, with as little pain and suffering as possible.

“Just as he (Solzhenitsyn) sees the need for Russia (America) to find its conscience, to repent and then impose limits on its ambitions – Russia (America) must do this for herself; no one can impose it on her – Solzhenitsyn sees the same need for the West.  The West (America) must acknowledge that for its own comfort, it has deserted others.”

Who has America deserted?  Millions of unborn to the collagen industry!  Hundreds if not thousands of Americans quietly euthanized behind the scenes!  The younger generation taught the homosexual lifestyle in school!  Pornographic pollution!  Sins of omission in leadership areas! The tragic list goes on and on…
 
While there is yet time for Americans to repent – before being stripped of everything that enhances life – the hourglass sands are rapidly falling.  America must find its conscience.  As in 1987, when the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith addressed an invitation, “to those responsible for the formation of consciences,”  it is now an urgent plea, before its final echo fades away through the Rocky Mountains of America….