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I removed Alexander Solzhenitsyn from the article as an example of a Christian humanist. I think Alexander Solzhenitsyn can't really be considered a Christian humanist due to his dedication to the notion that the Russian Orthodox religion was the answer to all the ills of Russia and of the world. A religious sectarian really can't be a Christian humanist, and I think that Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a religious sectarian, just like Fyodor Dostoevsky.

One bit of evidence in support of my view that Solzhenitsyn really does not qualify as a Christian humanist is found in one writer's reflection on the death of Solzhenitsyn in 2008 in Slate magazine: "As time went by, he metamorphosed more and more into a classic Russian Orthodox chauvinist, whose work became more wordy and propagandistic....However, when taken together with his partisanship for Slobodan Milosevic and the holy Serb cause, his exaltation of the reborn (and newly state-sponsored) Russian Orthodox Church, and his late-blooming admiration of the cold-eyed Vladimir Putin, the resulting mixture of attitudes and prejudices puts one in mind more of Dostoyevsky than of Tolstoy."[1]

Here's a quote, from Solzhenitsyn's famous Harvard speech of 1978, that perhaps shows that Solzhenitsyn was closer to Billy Graham than to Flannery O'Connor: "If humanism were right in declaring that man is born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot be unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cannot be the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then cheerfully get the most of them. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become an experience of moral growth, so that one may leave life a better human being than one started it." [2]

Then also there is the famous "men have forgotten God" statement by Solzhenitsyn, which I think shows that old-time religious revival was the only answer that Solzhenitsyn saw: "Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." [3]


Hey man I am new here but that was a very well written argument for NPOV on the talk page of alt facts. Nice work. Brettwardo (talk) 18:41, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

November 2017

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  1. ^ http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2008/08/the_man_who_kept_on_writing.html
  2. ^ http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm
  3. ^ http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
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