Koska palstan ateistit vaikuttavat kovin nokkelilta ja kielitaitoisilta, en vaivaudu kääntämään Solzenitsynin omista kovista kokemuksista kumpuavaa varoitusta länsimaiden asukkaille. Solzenitsynin mielestä he tulevat menettämään kaiken jos hylkäävät kristilliset perusarvot yhteiskuntiensa perustana.
1975 – in a speech to the AFL-CIO, Solzhenitsyn says – “- there is occurring a liberation of the human spirit. New generations are growing up which are steadfast in their struggle with evil; which are not willing to accept unprincipled compromises; which prefer to lose everything - salary, conditions of existence and life itself - but are not willing to sacrifice conscience; not willing to make deals with evil.”
1978 – in a speech at Harvard, Solzhenitsyn says – “Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full of pornography, crime and horror. It is considered to be part of freedom and theoretically counter-balanced by the young people's right not to look or not to accept. Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil.”
Author Stephen Baron says “Alexander Solzhenitsyn has sharply criticized the West for its excessive materialism. He warns that people wholly captivated by material well-being will lack the requisite spirit to defend their freedom, and he identifies religion as the last available spark capable of igniting a spiritual blaze with which to save humanity. While Alexis de Tocqueville agrees that excessive materialism poses a threat to freedom, he argues that its danger can be addressed as a political and not a metaphysical problem. Because Tocqueville identifies modernity with liberal democracy, he looks upon religion as a political institution which can counterbalance the defects of democracy.” Morality & Politics in Modern Life: Tocqueville & Solzhenitsyn on the Importance of Religion to Liberty.
1975 – in a speech to the AFL-CIO, Solzhenitsyn says – “- there is occurring a liberation of the human spirit. New generations are growing up which are steadfast in their struggle with evil; which are not willing to accept unprincipled compromises; which prefer to lose everything - salary, conditions of existence and life itself - but are not willing to sacrifice conscience; not willing to make deals with evil.”
1978 – in a speech at Harvard, Solzhenitsyn says – “Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full of pornography, crime and horror. It is considered to be part of freedom and theoretically counter-balanced by the young people's right not to look or not to accept. Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil.”
Author Stephen Baron says “Alexander Solzhenitsyn has sharply criticized the West for its excessive materialism. He warns that people wholly captivated by material well-being will lack the requisite spirit to defend their freedom, and he identifies religion as the last available spark capable of igniting a spiritual blaze with which to save humanity. While Alexis de Tocqueville agrees that excessive materialism poses a threat to freedom, he argues that its danger can be addressed as a political and not a metaphysical problem. Because Tocqueville identifies modernity with liberal democracy, he looks upon religion as a political institution which can counterbalance the defects of democracy.” Morality & Politics in Modern Life: Tocqueville & Solzhenitsyn on the Importance of Religion to Liberty.
Vastaukset 7
Vanhimmat
Venäjällä on aina oltu sitä mieltä, että länsimaat ovat Venäjän vihollisia ja yrittävät tuhota Venäjän, sekä materiaalisesti että henkisesti.
Solzenitsyn jatkaa tätä perinnettä.
kaikki äkkiä luolaan piiloon!
ja pulikalla päähän sitä joka ei tottele!
Solzenitsyn on ilman epäilystä suuri kirjailija.Hän kasvoi Neuvosto-todellisuudessa ja kykeni siitä huolimatta luomaan maailmankirjallisuutta.Hän ei tule saamaan Nobel-palkintoa,mutta rakastavat ajatuksemme seuraavat kuitenkin.
Eli Solzenitsyn sai Nobel-palkinnon.Kerrakin osui elävään ja vaikuttavaan...
Vain lahkolainen kykenee vääntämään tuon kirjoituksen "varoitukseksi ateisteille". Et ilmeisesti osannut sitä itsekään suomentaa.
Solzenitsynhän, kuten
Venäläisillä ajattelijoilla (mittavassa määrin muunmaalaisillakin) on tapana, kritisoi tuossa lähinnä länsimaista materialaistista elämäntapaa. Yleensähän te hiheltäjät mielellänne yhdistätte ateismin kommunismiin, nyt kapitalismiin...? Koettakaapa nyt päättää kumpia me olemme.
Miten kääntäisit seuraavan?:
"Alexander Solzhenitsyn has sharply criticized the West for its excessive materialism. He warns that people wholly captivated by material well-being will lack the requisite spirit to defend their freedom, and he identifies religion as the last available spark capable of igniting a spiritual blaze with which to save humanity."
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own. A God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), obituary in New York Times 1955-04-19