A great man has died today

A defender of humanity, and of God. You will remember that I recently blogged about him and recommended his acquaintance to especially the young people. Bless his soul. The New York Times says it very well here, short and sweet:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Solzhenistyn.html?hp

Detailed info including bibliography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
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He described the problems of both East and West as "a disaster" rooted in agnosticism and atheism. He referred to it as "the calamity of an autonomous, irreligious humanistic consciousness."

It has made man the measure of all things on earth—imperfect man, who is never free of pride, self-interest, envy, vanity, and dozens of other defects. We are now paying for the mistakes which were not properly appraised at the beginning of the journey. On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility.[citation needed]