Βασίλειος Θερμός: Ώσμωση επιστήμης και θρησκείας

Από τον Τολστόι παίρνουμε ό,τι καλό:

For the majority of scientific men, who view Christ’s vital, moral teaching from the lower point of the social conception of life, this teaching is only a very indefinite, clumsy combination of Hindu asceticism, Stoical and Neoplatonic teachings, and Utopian antisocial reveries, which have no serious significance for our time, and its whole meaning is centred in its external manifestations ……. In defining the significance of Christianity according to these phenomena, they are like deaf persons who should judge of the meaning and the worth of music according to the appearance of the motions which the musicians make.

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At the present time (δεύτερο μισό 19ου αι. και σίγουρα πριν τον Α΄ ΠΠ) Europe keeps under arms more soldiers than there were in the time of Napoleon’s great wars. All citizens, with few exceptions, are obliged on our continent to pass several years in the barracks. They build fortresses, construct arsenals and ships, constantly manufacture arms, which after awhile have to be replaced by others, because science, which ought always to be directed toward the well-being of men, unfortunately lends its aid to works of destruction, invents at every instant new engines for killing great masses of men as rapidly as possible.

The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Or, Christianity Not as a Mystical Teaching but as a New Concept of Life
Leo Tolstoy

[αυτούσιο το δημοσίευμα το οποίο αποτελεί Αναδημοσίευση από το βιβλίο: ΙΕΡΟΝ ΗΣΥΧΑΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ ΚΕΧΑΡΙΤΩΜΕΝΗΣ ΘΕΟΤΟΚΟΥ, «ΑΠΟ ΤΗ ΖΩΗ ΚΑΙ ΤΗ ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΟΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΙΟΥ»]

Ένα πρωινό συζητά ο Γέροντας Επιφάνειος Θεοδωρόπουλος με δυο-τρεις επισκέπτες στο σπίτι του ο ένας από τους οποίους είναι ιδεολόγος άθεος […]. Σε μια στιγμή έρχεται κάποιος απ’ έξω και τους πληροφορεί ότι η Αθήνα έχει γεμίσει από φωτογραφίες του Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης