What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
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The Right to Resist Evil by Violence
There are two orders of men who always refuse to admit, even in principle, a direct understanding of this doctrine. The Christian conservative patriots and the revolutionary atheists will not give up their right to resist by violence what they consider as evil. A short time ago I met with a correspondence particularly instructive as bearing on this very point. It was carried on between an orthodox slaver-file and a Christian revolutionist. Both admitted the necessity for violence and both ground their reasoning on the doctrine of Christ. But we do not choose to understand his teaching in its simple and direct sense. We have grounded our lives on a principle that he rejects.
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