Review; THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIM YOU by Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy is best known for his novels, especially War and Peace, but he was also an outspoken professing Christian. This book was said to have inspired both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., and I was interested to read it.

I didn't care for it. The beginning, with its comparison between the teachings of Jesus and the religion of the times, was good, but the middle, which disparages the Old Testament, and the end, which seems to see Christianity as merely a means to making the poor happy, are antithetical to Jesus' teaching.

There were a lot of schemes to help the poor in the 1800s, and this one used Christ. For that reason alone, I don't recommend it.