I’ve been reading Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God is Within You alongside Dawkins’ The God Delusion.

I agree with almost all that Dawkins has to say, yet in my eyes he says it without any of the grace or weight or feeling of Tolstoy.

They’re both attacking the church, but Dawkins chooses to attack all believers of God.

He finds the weakest points of Christianity and the Bible and attacks relentlessly.

I understand his frustration, I want to vent in the same way against the church.

But I take very little inspiration from his book. He’s written out concisely all the stupid shit that the Bible is full of.

But it leaves me feeling empty.
I genuinely believe that if we follow the path of Dawkins where we ridicule everything Jesus stood for and remain guided by nothing but science we will destroy our planet before we can stop ourselves.

Tolstoy is trying to explain to us the good that is in the teachings of Jesus.

We need the teachings of Jesus to help us guide science. Science is something created by humans not by nature. Nature balances everything perfectly to live in harmony. Science is great and it’s the greatest tool we have, but science really doesn’t give a fuck about you or me. I guess nature doesn’t care either…

We need the words of Jesus and Tolstoy. The law of love over the law of violence. Science has nothing to say on this. It can count the number of bodies for you and help rack up the number of bodies faster. Science can keep you happily distracted staring through your telescopes and microscopes, figuring out the puzzles there. In the mean time, the humans that don’t give a shit about nature go about using whatever they can to destroy whatever they want.

I do hope Dawkins’ book will open the eyes of the delusional. The Old Testament is a farce and most of the New Testament too.

Science won’t save us. The earth doesn’t need saving, the earth needs us to stop fucking about with the new powerful tools. Jesus and Tolstoy, on the other hand, if we listen really really carefully, might save us.

Until we stop the violence against all of nature’s creatures (including ourselves) we’re going to turn our paradise of earth into hell on earth.