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[https://www.interfaithamerica.org/article/leo-tolstoy/ by Nathan “Bam” Stanton 28/3/24 Interfaith America] | [https://www.interfaithamerica.org/article/leo-tolstoy/ by Nathan “Bam” Stanton 28/3/24 Interfaith America] | ||
This is the more politically active pacifism outlined by philosophers like Thoreau and others, but the roots of this philosophy may surprise you. In the far reaches of history, it has been brought to us through the figure of Jesus and His words in the Sermon on the Mount: | This is the more politically active pacifism outlined by philosophers like Thoreau and others, but the roots of this philosophy may surprise you. In the far reaches of history, it has been brought to us through the figure of Jesus and His words in the Sermon on the Mount: | ||
=====How to Resist Evil===== | |||
[https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/how-to-resist-evil by Leo Tolstoy 2/2/22 Plough] | |||
People are astonished that every year there are sixty thousand cases of suicide in Europe, and those only the recognized and recorded cases – and excluding Russia and Turkey; but one ought rather to be surprised that there are so few. Every person of the present day, if we go deep enough into the contradiction between his conscience and his life, is in a state of despair. | |||
