Monday, 16 May 2016

Church and State

“Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.”

Leo Tolstoy, Letter to Dr. Eugen Heinrich Schmitt (1896)

Source:

https://planetanarchy.liberty.me/leo-tolstoys-anarchist-philosophy-abridged-anarchy/

1 comment:

  1. NIV: Romans 13 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.
    ESV: Romans 13 13 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

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