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Render Unto Caesar?

by AnarchoChristian | Nov 21, 2021 | All Posts, Bible, Civil Disobedience, Economics, Lipscomb, Nationalism, Patriotism, Politics, Tolstoy

“Render unto Caesar.” You’re probably aware of this phrase, and its consistent appearance in arguments concerning Christians and the state. In most cases it’s thrown into a debate much like Romans 13 as a sort of proverbial trump card. It’s generally assumed...

12 Quotes from Leo Tolstoy on Truth, Violence, and Government

by AnarchoChristian | Nov 6, 2020 | All Posts, Nonresistance, Tolstoy, War

Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy (1828- 1910), more commonly known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer and philosopher. Tolstoy was born on a small family estate in Tula, Russia, an industrial city about 100 miles south of Moscow. The fourth of five children, Tolstoy...

6 Books To Quarantine By, Part 1: Christianity & Politics

by AnarchoChristian | Apr 4, 2020 | All Posts, Jacques Ellul, Nationalism, Tolstoy, War

6 Books To Quarantine By, Part 1: Christianity & Politics The various Covid-19 quarantines took most people by surprise. During that time, I’ve received numerous requests for reading suggestions. There are so many books to recommend, and if you’ve...

Exposing Leviathan

by AnarchoChristian | Jul 10, 2017 | All Posts, Anarchism, Capitalism, Economics, Nationalism, Patriotism, Robert Higgs, Tolstoy, War

Robert Higgs is most known for the landmark Crisis And Leviathan, in which he shows how the government grows in times of crisis, and namely in times of war. He is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for the Independent Institute and Editor at Large of the Institute’s...

Soldiers, Suicide, and Tolstoy

by AnarchoChristian | May 19, 2017 | All Posts, Patriotism, Tolstoy, War

Tolstoy on Soldier Suicide, 1894 “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...

A brief summary of Leo Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God is Within You, Chapter 5

by AnarchoChristian | May 9, 2017 | All Posts, Anarchism, Tolstoy

A brief summary of Leo Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God is Within You, Chapter 5 When I read chapter 5 of Tolstoy’s magnum opus, titled “Contradiction between our life and our Christian conscience,” I was floored by some startling similarities to...