Solzhenitsyn: Why we are accountable for everything

And as for our leadership, “…It was Solzhenitsyn who most crucially made the case that the terrible excesses of Communism could not be conveniently blamed on the corruption of the Soviet leadership, the ‘cult of personality’ surrounding Stalin, or the failure to put the otherwise stellar and admirable utopian principles of Marxism into proper practice. It was Solzhenitsyn who demonstrated that the death of millions and the devastation of many more were, instead, a direct causal consequence of the philosophy (worse, perhaps: the theology) driving the Communist system. The hypothetically egalitarian, universalist doctrines of Karl Marx contained hidden within them sufficient hatred, resentment, envy and denial of individual culpability and responsibility to produce nothing but poison and death when manifested in the world…” - An excerpt from Jordan Peterson’s foreword to the 50th Anniversary edition of Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago

Yes, Canada has become hypothetically egalitarian, where the universalist doctrines of Karl Marx contain the dialectical materialism of Communism with sufficient hatred, resentment, envy and denial of individual culpability and responsibility to produce nothing but poison and death being manifested here in Canada today! But there is an idea hidden within the Christian message which few appear to understand, certainly not as profoundly as Solzhenitsyn did. And as I asserted at the beginning of this paper, there is no more dangerous group of folks than those who think they already know what they have failed to understand. We are all accountable for one another’s behaviour and moral failings as well as for that of our own. This is why I assume the burden of writing the hard truths contained in these blogs which I can assure you is far from pleasant and enjoyable. Dealing with the sinful nature of man, indeed my own sin and finding salvation begins with me. This requires introspection and a rejection of narcissism in order to confront my own moral failings, for it is only then that I will be able to deal with the perverse rejection of God around me.

Here is something to think and pray about. Christ knew no sin, yet He became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. What does that mean? Christ metaphorically holds the position of being the only perfect man to have ever lived. The Scriptures make the fascinating assertion that He did so as the Son of Man, NOT, as the Son of God. Christ knew that He was personally accountable for everyone else’s behaviour and for what they believed. Therefore, he invited them to voluntarily place their faith in Him. So here we have the example of the Living Truth Himself, the very Logos by which God created the universe, assuming blame for sins which He did not commit. And what did he commission us to do? Namely the same by taking up our cross to follow Him. Everything that happens is in some way my fault. I must assume responsibility if I am to assist the Kingdom of God to come to earth so that His will may be done to counter the insane machinations of narcissistic lunatics in power who seek to enslave humanity with their toxic and Godless ideology. And moreover, that it is their error that I must also seek to address, for their error is my error too!