What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
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The Grenadiers Question, the Gospel or the Law of God?
There is not a single private individual who has not had to choose between serving God by fulfilling his commandments, or serving the government institutions of his country. Each man is called upon to take up an instrument of murder, a gun, a sword, even if he does not kill a fellow creature. He loads the gun and sharpens the sword, that is, he is ready to commit murder. None of us can evade the demand for such a decision. To say nothing of the class of society that I belong to, military men, judges, administrators, whose whole lives are passed in resisting evil. It stood before Christ and his disciples. It now stands before all those who wish to be Christians
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