Christian Anarchism

We generally almost all anarchists who wrote or write about anarchism also giving opinion on religion or Christianity in general and in others only the Christ's person.

There are some people who are impressed when they discover that many of the anarchist theorists were people of faith and lived their faith, so it was with Alexandra David-Neel who for a time was adherent of Islam and studied mysticism and occultism participating in the Madame Blavatsky study cycle and due to a spiritual crisis he lapped the world and saw before our brother monks and Tibetans have turned into a Lama. I will not tell the whole story of Alexandra because it would need tens of page what is important to know is that it just as Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy, both religious as well, had a great influence of anarchist thinkers here to Gandhi the importance of two works that we will see included on the basis of its membership one is the work of Thoreau civil disobedience and other work that he even take the chain with the times he was arrested by the army of the English crown of his friend Tolstoy's the Kingdom of God is Within you, said that this work not only influenced the thinking of Gandhi and was his bedside book as it was also important for him to cross his spiritual crisis. Gandhi as you know was born a Hindu, but adopted for his life philosophy that belong to every human religion because he understood that his so that each has the same common goal which is to reach God.

I quote this posting just these three religious who have also adopted some of anarchist philosophy. More in the gym we thought of Jacques Ellul theologian Frances author of Anarchism and Christianity and writing well about the revolutionary figure of Jesus Christ, Jesus who ended up on the cross next to the bandits and all sorts of thieves him crucified is what he fought for a change in thoughtless social bases. Christ challenged the political power, economic power and religious power of his time leaving no other place unless the cross for him and the cage to the lions for his followers.

Another theory that is well-known as one of the greatest geniuses of world literature Leo Tolstoy or Count Tolstoy became known worldwide for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina which gave Tolstoi the level of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century. What most people do not know is that Tolstoy published over two hundred essays and some letters where he spoke among other things about his religion, the Christ, and one of his greatest struggle flags nonviolence and its roots in the doctrines of Christ, which is seen in Tolstoi the defense of a return to Christ's ideal with a peaceful convince among men who need no be, entity or anything strange himself to rule against the state, against the army and against the Christian Church that the words of Tolstoy himself is the greatest enemy against the teachings of Christ.

It is seen in Tolstoi and Ellul the same thought concerning the Christian Church that generated the movement called Christianity. To Tolstoi Christian Church perverts the teaching of Christ to Ellul Christianity annihilates any possibility of understanding of these teachings, remembering one of the passages where Ellul portrays that it points to the distortion to the Christian teachings in the foundation of the Christian church by the Roman state, he says that when the church and the Christian religion were made official as the sole source of faith to the Romans end there any possibility of reconciliation of the thoughts of Christ and the ideals of church and state.

Just point out that for these two theoretical one thought in common is the view that on the social perspective of anarchism and the teachings of Christ have virtually the same goals to be achieved, or in other words, when it comes to social justice anarchist thought and the teachings of Christ intertwine making them virtually equal.