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“The first and crudest form of reply [to Tolstoy’s\u00a0 previously publish book \u201cWhat I Believe\u201d] consists in the bold assertion that the use of force is not opposed by the teaching of Christ; that it is permitted, and even enjoined, on the Christian by the Old and New Testaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assertions of this kind proceed, for the most part, from men who have attained the highest ranks in the governing or ecclesiastical hierarchy, and who are consequently perfectly assured that no one will dare to contradict their assertion, and that if anyone does contradict it they will hear nothing of the contradiction. These men have, for the most part, through the intoxication of power, so lost the right idea of what that Christianity is in the name of which\u00a0 they hold their position that what is Christian in Christianity\u00a0 presents itself to them as heresy, while everything in the Old and New Testaments which can be distorted into an antichristian and heathen meaning they regard as the foundation of Christianity. In support of their assertion that Christianity is not opposed to the use of force, these men usually, with the greatest audacity, bring together all the most obscure passages from the Old and New Testaments, interpreting them in the most unchristian way \u2014 the punishment of Ananias and Sapphira, of Simon the Sorcerer, etc. They quote all those sayings of Christ’s which can possibly be interpreted as justification of cruelty: the expulsion from the Temple; \u2018It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom than for this city,\u2019’ etc., etc. According to these people’s notions, a Christian government is not in the least bound to be guided by the spirit of peace, forgiveness of injuries, and love for enemies.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The first and crudest form of reply [to Tolstoy’s\u00a0 previously publish book \u201cWhat I Believe\u201d] consists in the bold assertion that the use of force is not opposed by the teaching of Christ; that it is permitted, and even enjoined,<\/p>\n

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