Tolstoy constructed his own version of Christianity through his translation and re-writing of the four Gospels, placing considerable emphasis on the Sermon on the Mount and considering any claims of miraculous occurrences nonsense. This was, of course, heretical. What I find surprising, as an inquirer into Orthodox Christianity, is that Tolstoy was not smart enough to recognise that Orthodoxy contains the fullness of the Christian faith and was founded by Christ at Pentecost. Tolstoy, who was lucky enough to be born into a traditional Orthodox Christian society, rejected the truth in favour of a heretical interpretation of Christianity. Did Tolstoy ever consider that the Gospels he wrecked were only available to him because of Eastern Orthodoxy and its members, "the Orthodox" he equated to the Pharisees? One would like to have seen him hold his own against TAG.
>>24862467Tolstoy is repulsive to me in any ways, both as a man and as a writer. His heresy is just the cherry on top.
>>24862484>His heresy is just the cherry on top.Any decent State would ban his writings considering that he was a dangerous subversive heretic.
>>24862467What? Tolstoy disagrees with orthodoxy and explains why. Saying he was too stupid to agree with it isn't an argument. Neither is saying he should be grateful and therefore agree with every tenant of orthodoxy.>>24862484Why?
>>24862467>I'm smarter than Tolstoy because I watch Jonathan Pageau and videos of orthodox priests telling me the devil wants me to masturbateTolstoy was very individual in everything he did, including his Christian life. I don't agree with how he interpreted Christ but his view has far more value than what the orthodox church would have to say about it.>>24862484>>24862506Hope you appreciate that at some point in Christian history you both would be deemed heretics by the mainstream Christianity and would have been exiled or killed. And I also hope that you appreciate that you people are just as dogmatic, callous and disturbed as the Bolsheviks who blew up the churches and killed the priests of Russia. You're just coming at it from the other side
>>24862543I disagree with his view on art. To me, clarity is a flaw, as it limits the possible interpretations you can get out of a piece of art. When you see a string of words in Shakespeare, their meaning is not immediately clear. You can connect them in several different ways (Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer): that's poetry to me. True beauty comes from ambiguity, from trying different puzzle solutions and from the satisfaction of it all coming together in the end. And then you talk to other people and they solved the puzzle differently. The puzzle gains extra layers, it has additional depth you weren't aware of. It mimics how real life works, with all its confusion and chaos. You can prove the same theorem in several, seemingly disconnected ways. The world is unstable on a fundamental level. When you send an unguided missile, you're not sure where exactly it'll land, there's too much uncertainty in the aerodynamic and mass characteristics, how the nozzle is attached, what wind you'll encounter. You can put a control system on it, but it won't change the underlying uncertainty, just mitigate it. Tolstoy, by simplifying, cuts off a whole layer of beauty. And his heavy-handed moralising is crude, arrogant even. When Ayn Rand does this, everyone hates her for it.I also hate his writing style, it puts me to sleep in a way not even Henry James (as much as I like the guy) does.
>>24862617>t. seething shakespeare fag
>>24862467Anyone with two braincells starts editing the Bible account since it’s obviously full of mistakes and contradictions. If they had three of them they’d realize the endeavor is futile.
>>24862642>If they had three of them they’d realize the endeavor is futile.And if they have 4+ they'd realise that these reddit tier arguments about muh contradictions and bible mistakes are easily refutable and that Christianity is the only worldview that accounts for metaphysics and epistemology.
>>24862617I disagree. In my view Tolstoy astutely characterizes the essence of art as sincere emotional expression and infection, while overly cerebral work detracts from the emotional faculties and has really nothing to do with art. I don't see why you shouldn't lump math equations into the domain of art if art is about demonstrating the beauty of ambiguity.
>>24862467Christianity is a Jewish lie so your critique of Tolstoy is as dishonest as your religion
>>24862467Was Tolstoy's version of Christianity influenced by Schopenhauer in any way?
>>24862467Good book. Other than a couple instances of weird sexual/cuck shit still being in there, the edits almost make The Bibble seem like a based way to live your life.
>>24862617I guess you think Michelangelo is a bad artist due to making clear representations of the human figure and prefer undefined prehistoric figurines?
>>24862467>John of Kronstadt called Tolstoy “a heretic to surpass all heretics” and foretold that he would suffer “the savage demise of a sinner." “According to the Scriptures, you should be lowered into the depths of the sea with a stone hung around your neck; there is no place for you on Earth,” John said about Tolstoy.basedwelcome to the /lit/ teahouse https://discord.gg/u3SMtuSV
