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...theory of nonresistance to evil stand up . . .? Did the convicts' nonresistance to flogging or forced labor or blackmail or prostitution transform them or those who were responsible for them into better men? . . . On the contrary, it turned them into bigger brutes." Soon Chekhov was warring with every Tolstoyan tenet, particularly the idea that "Christian love was incompatible with sexual love." And just who, demanded Chekhov, were these wonderful peasants Tolstoy was always talking about? He himself had "peasant blood in my veins" and bore the marks of peasant beatings What did the count know about such things...
Perhaps Mormon Benson might do well to let the spirit of the First Saint permeate his piousness with the basic Christian tenet of the brotherhood of all men-including the man in the overalls...
...churchman, in those days, had a life as secure as an imperial bureaucrat. Ever since the 16th century, when Luther invoked the help of German princes to fight off the dominion of Rome, the union of Throne and Altar had been a cardinal tenet of German Protestantism. The Kaiser in Berlin was the church's "Supreme Bishop," pledged to govern his country as a Christian king...
...fact is that every basic tenet of orthodox Christianity can be explained as logically as a theorem of Euclid. Few have followed St. Thomas as he piles syllogism on relentless syllogism, building from the bald fact of existence until he reaches the sky and beyond; but for those who have, the comparison of his work with that of most modern philosophers is like comparing the drawings of an architect with the scrawls of bright children...
...that knowledge by an even more mysterious alchemy will then become wisdom . . . Education has pinned its faith to a fictitious 'progress,' blandly believing that man is a romantic creature destined to walk the road of evolution 'more and more unto the perfect day.' Every tenet of this creed has been falsified: progress has become a rather nasty mixture of cash and gadgets, and the road of evolution has reached-Buchenwald...