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The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
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Misconception, that the Teaching Cannot be put into Practice,
Due to the Christian Religion Directing Life in a Way Different
from that of the Social Theory of Life--Christianity holds up
Ideal, does not lay down Rules--To the Animal Force of Man
Christ Adds the Consciousness of a Divine Force--Christianity
Seems to Destroy Possibility of Life only when the Ideal held
up is Mistaken for Rule--Ideal Must Not be Lowered--Life,
According to Christ's Teaching, is Movement--The Ideal and the
Precepts--Second Misconception Shown in Replacing Love and
Service of God by Love and Service of Humanity--Men of Science
Imagine their Doctrine of Service of Humanity and Christianity
are Identical--Doctrine of Service of Humanity Based on Social
Conception of Life--Love for Humanity, Logically Deduced from
Love of Self, has No Meaning because Humanity is a Fiction--
Christian Love Deduced from Love of God, Finds its Object in
the whole World, not in Humanity Alone--Christianity Teaches
Man to Live in Accordance with his Divine Nature--It Shows that
the Essence of the Soul of Man is Love, and that his Happiness
Ensues from Love of God, whom he Recognizes as Love within
himself.


Now I will speak of the other view of Christianity which hinders
the true understanding of it--the scientific view.

Churchmen substitute for Christianity the version they have framed
of it for themselves, and this view of Christianity they regard as
the one infallibly true one.

Men of science regard as Christianity only the tenets held by the
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