What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
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What Is Cruelty?
Cruelty does not lie in leaving the wicked free to act as they please, but in letting the innocent man suffer without defending him. If John Chrysostom does acknowledge the doctrine of Christ, he ought to have told us who is to take an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, and cast into prison. But if no punishment were appointed for criminals, would it not be arming them with weapons of fearlessness? Only for those whom Christ calls, you hypocrites, you generation of vipers. The Hebrews do not consider the words of Christ valid, and they believe in the Mosaic Law.
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