Though it is Christian related it is also something for men/women/children of any denomination/sect/creed to think about. In this time of healing for all of us, healing of the environment, the whole earth; it becomes imperative that we realize that to make the changes we must change the way we think, the way our governments think by first changing the way we, as individuals, think.
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And this is the only explanation of the dreadful intensity with which men of modern times strive to stupefy themselves, with spirits, tobacco, opium, cards, reading newspapers, traveling, and all kinds of spectacles and amusements. These pursuits are followed up as an important, serious business.
And, indeed they are a serious business. If there were no external means of dulling their sensibilities, half of mankind would shoot themselves without delay, for to live in opposition to one’s reason is the most intolerable condition.
And that is the condition of all men of the present day. All men of the modern world exist in a state of continual and flagrant antagonism between their conscience and their way of life.
This antagonism is apparent in economic as well as political life. But most striking of all is the contradiction between the Christian law of the brotherhood of men existing in the conscience and the necessity under which all men are placed by compulsory military service of being prepared for hatred and murder –
of being at the same time a Christian and a gladiator.
This is a quote from “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”
TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN OF
LEO TOLSTOY
BY
CONSTANCE GARNETT
NEW YORK
CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1894
FORMATTED AND EDITED
WWW.NONRESISTANCE.ORG
2006
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