My Religion

Raised in the Russian Orthodox Church, Tolstoy lost his religion at 18. After a life of debauchery, in his early 50s, he wanted religion - or some source of intellectual security - back. Tolstoy notes that, whatever the faith may be, it "e;gives to the finite existence of man an infinite meaning, a meaning not destroyed by sufferings, deprivations, or death,"e; and yet he is careful not to conflat...