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''The Kingdom of God Is Within You'' is the Non-fiction Magnus Opus of Leo Tolstoy and was first published in Germany in 1894 , after being banned in his home country of Russia . It is the culmination of thirty years of Tolstoy's Christian thinking, and lays out a new organization for society based on a literal Christian interpretation. Such an argument supposes that when Christ says to Turn The Other Cheek , he means exactly that, and is not bounded by any complicated sophistries or esoteric meanings. This reasoning leads to the following question: If, on the one hand, you believe that Christ meant what he said literally, this means that Christ foresaw a society based on love and tolerance, one that is completely incompatible with war and all violence. If, on the other hand, you believe that Christ did not mean what he said literally, then war and violence are acceptable, Christian forms of defense. Tolstoy takes the viewpoint that "Thou shalt not murder", and that therefore all governments who wage war are directly affronting the Christian principles that should guide all life. The title of the book is taken from . In the book Tolstoy speaks of the principle of Nonresistance when confronted by violence, as taught by Jesus (see Christian Pacifism ). Tolstoy sought to separate Orthodox Russian Christianity, which was merged with the state, from what he believed was the true message of Jesus Christ, as contained in the Gospels, specifically the Sermon On The Mount . Tolstoy presented excerpts from magazines and newspapers relating various personal experiences, and gave keen insight into the history of nonresistance as being professed by a minority of believers from the very foundation of Christianity . In particular, he confronts those who argue that such a change to a non-violent society would be disastrous with the following recourse:
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