Tolstoy's Confessions

There seems to be the strange absence of a of god in this short story. It would have been easy for Tolstoy, i think, to weave in a more dogma, christian dogma, into the piece if he wanted. He could have had ivan a recollect a time where he was like listening to a sermon, or having a conversation with the priest as a child. But he doesn't. There isn't one that accurate or no, this one time he invokes christ's name, at least where heas. The third priests that i mentioned, he takes communion, but that's not his wife. Just had the priest come in sa of sich a thing,