Leo Tolstoy, “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, 1893.
“Let the Church stop its work of hypnotizing the masses, and deceiving children even for the briefest interval of time, and men would begin to understand Christ’s teaching (Sermon on the Mount*). But this understanding will be the end of the churches and all their influence. And therefore the churches will not for an instant relax their zeal in the business of hypnotizing grownup people and deceiving children. This, then, is the work of the churches: to instill a false interpretation of Christ’s teaching into men (Nicene Creed*), and to prevent a true interpretation of it for the majority of so-called believers.”
Page 62; (* not the author).
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