Is There a False Equivalence?

"How can you do any job other than be an evangelist if eternity is real, if there's a heaven and a hell?" he asks. "Before I went to the last war, I certainly expected that my life in the trenches would in some mysterious sense be all war," Tolstoy says. Neither conversion nor enlistment in the army is really going to obliterate our human life,. Christians and soldiers are all men. The infidel's idea of a religious life and the civilians' idea of active service are fantastic."