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Jesus Christ Was A Pacifist; A Historical Perspective On Pacifist Christians Opposed To The Myth Of A ‘Just War’ – 111 Verses Teaching Peace – 50 Characteristics Of Anti-Christ
Luke 9:23 – 23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Footnotes
Luke 9:23 Even as one day followeth another, so doth one cross follow another, and the cross is by the figure Metonymy, taken for the miseries of this life: for to be hanged, was the sorest and cruelest punishment that was amongst the Jews.
111 NEW TESTAMENT VERSES AROUND PEACE AND CHRIST
NATO is made up of ‘Christian’ nations. Russia is also Christian. Ukraine is Christian. Why are all of these alleged ‘Christians’ killing each other, when Christ was a pacifist, who taught his followers peace at any cost, forgiveness, and turning the other cheek?
Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Mark 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt be unsavory, wherewith shall it be seasoned? have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Luke 1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Luke 2:14 Glory be to God in the high heavens, and peace in earth, and toward men good will.
Luke 12:51 Think ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, nay, but rather debate
John 14:27Peace I leave with you: my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor fear.
Acts 10:36 Ye know the word which God hath sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, which is Lord of all:
Romans 8:6 For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the Spirit is life and peace,
Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God, is not meat nor drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the holy Ghost.
Ephesians 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace.
CHRIST AND HIS DIRECT APOSTLES WERE ALL PACIFISTS, COMMANDED BY CHRIST TO THE GREAT COMMISSION
Christ’s command to all believers was the Great Commission, which was to bring the good news to the whole world, without any weapons, threats or war, or violence. How did this command turn into Christians waging a ‘just preventative war’ on the entire world which consists of ‘infidels’ that deserve only to be murdered by illegal invasions, bombing, shootings, and tortures via close to 1,000 foreign US military bases?
Matthew 28:16-201599 Geneva Bible16 ¶ [a]Then the eleven disciples went into Galilee, into a mountain, where Jesus had appointed them. 17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came, and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me, in heaven, and in earth. 19 [b]Go therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them [c]in the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the holy Ghost, 20 Teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you [d]alway, until the end of the world, Amen.”
Who was the ‘real’ Jesus Christ? Was Christ white skinned? Did he have blonde hair? Were his eyes blue? Was Christ ‘Christian’, as in born in the USA? Was Christ a weapons dealer or war monger?
Add to the colonizer list above; Kill/bomb them all and let God/Jesus sort them out.
THE LAW OF GOD, NOAH, ADAM, MOSES AND CHRIST PROHIBITS KILLING; THUS KILLING ANY HUMAN IS ANTI-GOD AND ANTI-CHRIST
The laws of God are repeated through; laws of Adam, the law of Noah, the laws of Moses, and the laws of Christ. All of the spiritual laws in multiple religions also prohibit the killing of any human. Christ specifically requires the forgiveness of anyone and everyone, plus non judgement for his followers.
Genesis 4:10 1599 Geneva Bible10 Again he said, What hast thou done? the [a]voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me, from the earth.
Pacifism “held a significant position within the early church. Those who hold to this position would read Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:38-48 as prescriptions for Christian conduct — and not merely the attitude one has when facing persecution. They would say that Christ, who freely laid down his life, is the model for Christians. We should never fight. https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/does-the-bible-justify-war.html?
The only apostle around Jesus Christ that participated in the killing of a person for profit was Judas, who turned Jesus in to the Chief Jewish Priests, for 30 pieces of silver, to be killed. In other words, he participated in the conspiracy and planning process of the murder of Jesus, which is the same as actually doing it. Judas did not live long after that.. He committed suicide because his own conscience convicted him, just like many soldiers do after they come home after ‘legally’ murdering people in a ‘just war’. https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=+Judas%2C+&version=GNV
Spiritually, in the eyes of God/Christ, anyone who plans, organizes, participates with knowledge, or helps those who have killed after the fact, or who hides evidence around a murder, is just as guilty of murder as those who actually do the killing. It does not matter if mere humans call killing ‘legal’ as in war, or by other names such as manslaughter, capital punishment, etc. (There is forgiveness available, go to the end)
CHRIST TAUGHT THAT PHYSICAL WAR WAS THE WORK OF SATAN, AND SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS (THERE IS NO ‘JUST WAR’)
Ephesians 6:12 1599 Geneva Bible 12 [a]For we wrestle not against flesh and [b]blood, but against [c]principalities, against powers, and against the worldly governors, the princes of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness, which are in the high places.
“What if Christianity actually teaches peace and not preventive wars of aggression?” Ron Paul pic.twitter.com/r146XqvmTQ
What did Christ do when He was surrounded by many kings, princes, and religious groups trying to kill him multiple times without jury, trial or judge, just because he was telling the truth? As pointed at above, Christ did not get into any physical struggles, fights, or wrestling matches. He did not start any physical wars. Christ warned against all such things. Christ pointed at the spiritual war that was going on, and is still happening today, which He is now the spiritual leader, general and commander of. Christ was tempted by Satan many times.
Christ stayed within the Will of God and received God’s protection. Christ prayed and used supernatural Holy Spirit supernatural powers including intuition, to avoid the many attempts on his life by Kings, politicians, and religious groups. Christ was not killed until God gave his enemies permission to kill him, and Christ agreed to that. What Jesus did was to follow God’s Divine Will no matter what, even if that meant giving up his own life, for the Will of God, which He did.
If there is a ‘just war’ for Christ, which version of 900 official ‘canon’ Bibles teaches that, and is that taught in the Old Testament or the New Testament books? The First Bible in 48 AD was official canon for the Apostles of Christ, and it had no Old Testament at all.
Does Jesus Christ really support ‘just wars’ waged on other Christians, such as the Catholic Church killing millions of Protestants and other denominations of Christ in the Middle Ages, during the Inquisition and Holy Wars?
Does Christ really support ‘just wars’ consisting of Christians in Ukraine killing other Christians who often have direct family members that are also Christian in Russia? Why do Christians support building bombs that will be used to export into other countries for PROFIT, and which then be used to kill other Christians there? What does Christ stand to gain from Christians killing other Christians of any kind?
Did Christ really support the Civil War in the US, where Christian families were killing each other; Christian brother against Christian brother, Christian father against Christian son, and Christian uncles murdering their own Christian family on the ‘other side’? Was the Civil War a ‘just war’ in Christ’s eyes? What does Christ stand to gain from Christians killing other Christians of any kind?
Was Christ in favor of idol worship and sacrificing animals after he rose from the dead?
HOW MANY CHRISTIANS ARE REALLY FOLLOWING CHRIST, WHO TAUGHT HIS FOLLOWERS AND DISCIPLES PACIFISM?
HOW MANY HOUSES OF WORSHIP CAN STATE; ‘WAR IS CONTRARY TO THE WILL OF GOD?
CHRIST TEACHES HOW TO BE A PACIFIST WHEN SURROUNDED BY LOTS AND LOTS OF ENEMIES WHO WANT TO KILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
One reason why Christ was so hated by so many was due to the fact that he was a pacifist.
Christ did not pick any ‘side’, nor join any military force or militia. He represented God.
Matthew 5:38“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’[a]39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor[b] and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Remember that Christ served as the example of what to do when surrounded by enemies that want to kill you. Even if they succeed, Christ promises an eternal spiritual kingdom.
Satan promises only a temporary earthly kingdom, and then eternal suffering/separation from God, in Hell, via a free will choice AGAINST Christ.
Learn 22 Christ and Peace Verses in Bible
Acts 10:36 You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.
Romans 1:7 To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:1Peace and hope therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
THE MYTH OF A ‘JUST WAR’ IS BASED ON NEVER ENDING LIES, FROM BEGINNING TO END
The problem with the myth of a Just War, is that ALL wars are based on lies. Lies are the domain of Satan. Satan’s job is also to kill, destroy, steal plus lie. Never ending wars accomplish all of these things. So how can a follower of Christ be a Christian and serve/obey Satan at the same time? Remember that Satan controls the Earthly realm, which is based for the most part on a system of lies and deception…
Satan wants as many Christians who believe only in the Old Testament, but who never read the New Testament, to participate and ally with him in his rebellion against God, Christ/God Commandments, including living a lie, telling lies and holding deep dark secrets that have to do with killing innocent people inside of many never ending ‘just wars’ that end up killing many Christians, loved by God and Christ. Can a Christian really be a follower of Christ, while killing people, (often other Christians) and while at the same time telling lies and living lies?
What would Christ say or do if he were forcibly conscripted into the military, and asked to kill his own Christian followers?
THE MYTH OF A ‘JUST WAR’ IS BASED ON A SATANIC SPIRIT OF ARROGANCE, PLUS OTHER CHARACTER TRAITS OF ANTI-CHRIST
Another myth of a ‘Just War’ is that those aggressively and arrogantly promoting wars via lies, propaganda, coups, false flag attacks, victim blaming/shaming and guilting of pacifists are always ‘right’ with the use of the spirit of ARROGANCE, which is ego.
Anyone who opposes war is always ‘wrong’ and deserves to be thrown into prison, smeared or killed, due to not being ‘patriotic’ enough. Arrogance is the opposite of humility, which is Christ like. Arrogance and ego is opposed to Christ, and hates what Christ has plus taught.
Arrogance is what Satan has to offer, in rebellion to God. Shaming, guilting, blaming victims and propaganda are all part of Satan’s kingdom.
Satan worshipping is real. Satan worshipping is now out in the open and on full display, even though the people involved might be ‘actors’, on TV, or on a stage. Satan and his allies are in full view for the whole world to see.
Madonna introduced and Pfizer proudly sponsored this satanic performance, these people are SICKpic.twitter.com/tLK5qOTdiv
1 John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God: but this is the spirit of Antichrist, of whom ye have heard, how that he should come, and now already he is in this world.
The spirit, character and/or characteristics of someone allied with or being the actual Anti Christ might include some or all of the following;
Cannot say ‘Jesus Christ is my Lord’, ‘My’ people are better than others, not putting God/Christ first, likes being above everyone else/top dog, conceited, proud, values status, values possessions, worships idols, hypocritical, smearing others to look better, attacking truth tellers, deceptive, loud, brash, knowing it all for absolutely certain, vain, gossiping, not trusting God, selfish, gaining/using secrets against others, judging God/Christ, playing the victim, lying, stealing, lawless, anti-Christ beliefs, prideful, arrogant, corrupt, self worshipping, heretical, rebellious, anti God, demon possessed, persecution of Christians, shaming, guilting, blaming the victims, blasphemous, fornicating, idol worshipping, abomination of desolation, murdering, claiming godhood, claiming power above or over God/Christ, claiming to be Christ, performing ‘miracles’, anti-human rights, anti-humanity, hypocritical, justify everything in rebellion to God/Christ, pro genocide, pro torture, claiming truth tellers are guilty of crimes such as anti-Semitism, claiming to be ‘the chosen one’, rebuilding the 3rd temple, supporting rebuilding the 3rd temple, ruling from the 3rd temple in Jerusalem, sacrificing animals around or in the 3rd temple in Jerusalem, boasting, breaks treaties, breaks agreements, breaks promises, lures Christians into following him, man of sin, builder of towers, demands worship, demands praise, demands absolute loyalty, demands absolute obedience, pro Zionism, etc…
Does anyone come to mind around some or many of the above?
Has anyone ever heard Trump say that Christ is the Lord of his life?
Trump compared himself to Jesus in two posts so far this Easter Sunday.
In one he posts about his "crucifixion."
In another that he is "the Chosen One," "a miracle," "sent by God."
Satan/Anti Christ cannot say very specifically; “Jesus Christ is my Lord”… nor can any demons or those filled with the spirit of Anti-Christ.
Both Satan, Anti Christ and demons can and do hold up or sell Bibles, and talk a lot about Christ or the Bible. They do believe in Christ as a real person, but they cannot say those specific words “Jesus Christ is my Lord”. Trump has never said those specific words.
CAN THERE BE A JUST WAR, WHEN ANY WAR CREATES THE SEEDS FOR FUTURE WARS, WHICH MAY INVOLVED A GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR THAT DESTROYS ALL OF HUMANITY?
Any and all ‘just war’ creates the seeds for future wars, just through the people who are traumatized and/or damaged in that ‘just war’ either as a victim or as a soldier who ends up with PTSD. Hitler wanted to be a painter, and was refused entry into painting school. Hitler ended up serving in WWI, and then sought revenge, for perceived injustice suffered as a result of that war. Many supported Hitler because they believed he was waging a ‘just war’. War can be an idol, just like many other things.
Christian Nationalism is mostly idol worship.
The idol of whiteness. The idol of wealth. The idol of power. The idol of borders. The idol of patriarchy. The idol of scripture. The idol of war.
George Soros was traumatized and damaged during WWII. He now supports ‘just wars’.
The interview where George Soros shows no remorse for stealing the assets of who were taken to death camps while he posed as a Christian. «I would say that that's when my character was made» pic.twitter.com/TnjrOZru99
NATO CLAIMS THAT ALL OF IT’S WARS ARE ‘JUST WARS’, BUT WHAT DOES THE EVIDENCE SHOW?
The spirit of the Anti Christ inside of a corrupt military industrial complex based empire is arrogant, rebellious, angry, vengeful, hateful, deceptive, destructive, murderous, brutal, cold, full of hubris, greed and denial.
The US NATO military industrial complex based empire claims all of it’s wars are ‘just wars’, while at the same time lying to the public via the mass media, and also breaking all international treaties, laws, agreements and rules.
THE MYTH OF A ‘JUST WAR’ RELIES ON CENSORING AND PUNISHING TRUTH TELLERS PLUS WHISTLE BLOWERS
When truth telling journalists that report on war crimes or corruption are thrown into prison, but war criminals are running free and living the life of luxury via taxpayer money, just how ‘just’ are these ‘just’ wars?
THE MYTH OF A JUST WAR RELIES ON CENSORING OR PUNISHING TRUTH TELLING JOURNALISTS
NATO ends up killing many journalists, and then covers it up. Anyone daring to talk about it, publish this, or report on it is punished viciously, completely outside of all legal avenues and the law.
THE MYTH OF A ‘JUST WAR’ RELIES ON REBELLING AGAINST GOD
Some people point at how God destroyed whole cities or the entire world as proof that God is warlike and loves war, but the opposite is actually true. God never killed anyone who was full of faith, told the truth and acted like Jesus, and/or was filled with the Holy Spirit.
In the beginning of Creation, God set up a peaceful, harmonious Heaven on Earth, which continued until Satan and Adam/Eve rebelled against God. When Cain slew his brother Abel, he was rebelling against God, and so it has continued right up to today.
All wars are rebellion against God, and are a violation of God’s Commandment; Thou Shalt Not Kill.
THE MYTH OF JUST WAR; GOD DOES NOT DEPEND ON STANDING ARMIES, ADVANCED HIGH TECH WEAPONS, DEFENSIVE FORTIFICATIONS, NOR NUCLEAR BOMBS
In Genesis 19, Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities that God destroyed completely due to sin plus rebellion, with no help from any person, gun or soldier. God did not need any army waging a ‘just war’ on his behalf. The one person who dared to disobey God and look back when God ordered them not to, was punished with death by being turned into a pillar of salt.
In Genesis 6 the Earth was completely flooded by God and everyone (including the dark angels) that was rebelling against God was destroyed, (except for one small uncontaminated group listening to and following the Will of God). God acted as Supreme Military Commander, Judge, Lawyer and Jury. God needed no help from any human army, weapons or soldiers in a mythical ‘just war’ to vanquish demons, dark angels and all humans rebelling against His Will.
A ‘JUST WAR’ MYTH DID NOT WORK FOR THE FALSE PROPHETS WHO PROCLAIMED CHRIST WAS A DEMON OR SATAN HIMSELF THAT NEEDED TO BE KILLED
The Bible is full of stories of God’s most special and favored people who started wars against other nations and killing people without hearing from God directly in the present moment. What happened to all of the people acting outside of the Divine Will of God?
Jewish people waged multiple wars against the Roman and other empires based on false prophets issuing guarantees of victory, but were then killed and destroyed totally multiple times. Then the remainder of people left alive after being conquered were sold into slavery, all because they did not follow God’s will.
The Jewish people then paid for that ‘sin’ of rebelling against God by following their own ego based will, by being destroyed themselves and by being sold into slavery themselves. Acting without God’s direct and confirmable Divine ‘order’ is punishable by death, suffering, slavery, punishment, and/or destruction, because underneath it all, those claiming ‘Just War’ are doing it outside of Gods’ will, and that is nothing more than rebellion against God, and it is a violation of the Ten Commandments, according to the Old Testament laws.
The Jewish religious leaders and most people rebelled against God and Christ during the time of Christ’s ministry. The Jewish religious groups orchestrated and killed God’s prophet and their Jewish Messiah called Jesus Christ. Almost all of the apostles who went out on the Great Commission, were mocked, tortured and killed. The people killing Gods messengers, prophets and the Messiah himself took on God’s judgement that came with that, based on their own free will choice to reject Christ and then to kill him as well.
Within 40 years of killing Jesus, Jerusalem plus the main Jewish temple was leveled to the ground, and every Jewish person living there was either killed or sold into slavery. That main temple where animals sacrifices were done has not be rebuilt since that time….
A MYTHICAL ‘JUST WAR’ IS REQUIRED TO EXPAND AND TAKE OVER ALL OF PALESTINE AND THEN TO EXPAND OUT INTO OTHER COUNTRIES AND THE WORLD, VIA THE ZIONIST ‘PLAN’
When the Jewish people refused/rejected Christ as Messiah and then killed him, were they acting inside of God’s will, or were they acting on their own, outside of God’s will, while rebelling against God?
Today, Jewish leaders and the Jewish people in Israel are still 98 percent Jewish and are Anti-Christ, by definition. Even those who believe in him as a ‘good’ man, but denying him as Messiah, are still Anti Christ. So are the Jewish people acting in God’s will or are they acting outside of God’s will, when they have a Rothschild supported Zionist ‘plan’? The plan is based on the Old Testament and justifies taking over many countries via war, genocide and forced ethnic cleansing…
Is the Jewish ‘nation’ in or out of God’s will, after rejecting and then killing Christ, all the way up to today? Remember they have no temple to offer God ‘cleansing’ animal blood sacrifices. Has God forgiven them for killing not just this prophet/Messiah, but many others He sent to warn them?
If the Jewish ‘nation’ is inside of God’s will, then God will protect them, guide them and give them everything that is in His will. The Jewish nation does not need anyone else’s help, weapons, allies, troops or anything else in the way of support. The ancient story of David slaying Goliath applies. God can and will destroy any country coming against the Jewish nation, if they are indeed inside of God’s will and protection, and/or inside of Christ’s family. But what happens if the opposite is true?
— Patrick O. Henry (@PatrickOHenry76) May 20, 2024
On the other hand, if the Jewish nation/people are outside of God’s will, and on top of that they are also Anti Christ, what hope do they have of succeeding in ANYTHING that they plan or do? God will not be in it. Christ will not be in it. The Holy Spirit will also not be in it. Literally, the only thing left is the Spirit Of The ANTI CHRIST. Who would agree to ally with them if this is the case?
When The Lie becomes the Truth: “Israel is the Victim of Palestinian Aggression”. According to the ICC, “There is No Genocide”.
The false flag logic –which has resulted in Israeli casualties–, has provided Israel with a justification to undertake a genocide against Palestinians.
On that same day of October 7, 2023 Netanyahu launched a military operation against the Gaza Strip entitled “State of Readiness For War”. Had “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm” been a “surprise attack” as parroted by the media, Netanyahu’s “State of Readiness For War” could not have been carried out (at short notice) on that same day, namely October 7, 2023.https://michelchossudovsky.substack.com/p/when-the-lie-becomes-the-truth-israel?
HOW MANY CHRISTIANS ARE LISTENING TO AND FOLLOWING LYING FALSE PROPHETS, WHO FALSELY CLAIM ‘JUST WARS’, VIA ILLEGAL COUPS, INVASIONS, ASSASSINATIONS, DRONE BOMBING CIVILIANS?
Are all of these coups, invasions and occupations ‘just wars’?
THE MYTH OF A ‘JUST WAR’ RELIES ON THE FALSE IDOL WORSHIP OF SATAN WHO IS IN CHARGE OF KILLING, STEALING, LYING, AND DESTROYING
What if many Christians these days do not really believe the real Christ who was a pacifist?
Christ is still a Holy Spirit filled life, love and peace loving pacifist.
What if many Christians believe in and follow a lying deceiving false prophet called Satan, who was and still is the dark rebel lying angel? Remember that Satan is against God. Satan is an Anti-Christ warmonger. Satan only steals, kills, lies and destroys all life, while Christ is the total opposite of this.
Satan rebelled against God in the beginning with 1/3 of all angels, who became demons. They now rule Earth, and are working on getting all Christians to believe that Satan is God, Satan is Christ and that the Anti Christ is better than God, and should rule over all humans in the world.
“WAR” DECLARED ON GOD & ALL MANKIND!!! “BY” – THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION /BEAST & FALSE PROPHET – The Military Industrial Complex/The U.S. Government, a U.S. Military Contract (See Profile for Our Contracts & Testimony) #RUSSIA – #CHINA – #IRAN – #NORTHKOREA – #SCO – #BRICSpic.twitter.com/EmEzAXNimu
— Samuel Robert Ludwick (@SamuelRobertLu1) May 25, 2023
THE ‘JUST WAR’ MYTH REQUIRES IDOL WORSHIPPING OF WEAPONS, BOMBS, AND A GLOBAL NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON
How many Christians are following false prophets that claim Jesus Christ was and still is a war mongering weapons dealer and nuclear weapons use promoter who is perfectly ok with destroying all foreign ‘enemies’ that oppose a totally corrupt US empire/NATO, via never ending wars, and ending in a global nuclear war that Satan following war mongers believe can be ‘won’?
All of Satan’s lies can and will be exposed. God never lies, and neither does Christ. The just war myth relies on ever changing lies, deception, propaganda and never ending wars for PROFIT, and absolutely corrupting absolute POWER.
Giuseppe Conte, a former Italian Prime Minister and leader of the Five Star Movement, to Italian Prime Minister Meloni:
After 2 years, we ask you, what about the bet you made on a military victory over Russia? All the predictions for a military victory, for the collapse of the… pic.twitter.com/hBTsHo5f4x
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) April 5, 2024
False prophets working with demons and Satan can easily be recognized by the lack of their predictions coming true and by the number of lies they tell. Satan would love it if only people would believe all of the ‘just war’ lies to be truth, which cannot be refuted. He is working hard to make sure this happens, by passing laws which make the truth illegal to be told, and truth to be made into a crime, punishable by both fines and jail terms.
ANOTHER MYTH OF A “JUST WAR” IS THAT GOD NEEDS OUR HELP TO CREATE ‘PEACE’, AND HEAVEN ON EARTH VIA KILLING MANY BILLIONS OF PEOPLE
God in his divine time, does eventually tire of rebellion against God and the breaking of his Commandments, such as; THOU SHALT NOT KILL, so there is an end to Satanic kingdoms, despots and dictators who love to kill others.
God does eventually dispense Divine Justice in his Divine Timing, for especially rebellious, wicked and sinful angels, people, organizations, nations, kingdoms, empires and dictators.
The Book of Revelation 1 is a prophecy of God saying; It details the Divine dispensing of God’s Divine Justice, so that all those who rebelled against God to the very end get the outcome they want, which is separation from God, eternally. But those who embrace faith, peace, love, and follow Gods/Christ’s Will, and the Ten Commandments will inherit an eternal Divine Kingdom, which is also part of the prophecy.
Those who are not following Christ’s commandments and/or who do not believe in Christ cannot be part of God’s Kingdom that He will create on Earth.. Be careful about the profession you enter and what you do there, because it will have eternal consequences or benefits depending on free will choices we all have.
In the end, just like at the beginning, God will create Heaven on Earth and there will be children of God living in Oneness. In other words, God and Christ are all about creating both inner and outer peace, love and Heaven on Earth, not the opposite.
JESUS NEVER HARMED OR KILLED ANYONE, EVEN WHILE HE WAS ORDERING GREEDY CAPITALISTS TO LEAVE THE JEWISH TEMPLE
Jesus as pacifist along with this apostles and disciples never hurt or killed anyone. Christ commanded his followers to follow in his footsteps, and never to waver or doubt.
A RIGHTEOUS CHRIST WAS A PACIFIST, WHO ORDERED HIS APOSTLES AND DISCIPLES TO DO NO HARM AND TO NEVER KILL ANYONE, BECAUSE KILLING ENTAILS UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH IS SATANIC
Christ was the most extreme pacifist ever, to the point of healing the ear of the Roman soldier who came to arrest him, and ordering his followers not to physically fight against anyone opposed to Christ or his apostles.
You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. — Matthew 5:38–39[20]
Christian anarchists, such as Ballou and Hennacy, believe that adherence to Christianity requires not just pacifism but, because governments inevitably threatened or used force to resolve conflicts, anarchism. Most Christian pacifists, including the peace churches, Christian Peacemaker Teams, and individuals like John Howard Yoder, make no claim to be anarchists.
Origins
Old Testament
A Levite reading the Law to the Israelites. The Rambam famously rules that members of the tribe of Levi do not fight in the army.[3]
Roots of Christian pacifism can be found in the scriptures of the Old Testament according to Baylor University professor of religion, John A. Wood.[4] Millard C. Lind explains the theology of warfare in ancient Israel as God directing the people of Israel to trust in him, not in the warring way of the nations, and to seek peace, not coercive power. Stephen B. Chapman expresses the Old Testament describes God’s divine intervention, not human power politics, or the warring king, as key to the preservation of Israel.
[5] Lind asserts the Old Testament reflects that God occasionally sanctions, even commands wars to the point of God actually fighting utilizing the forces of nature, miraculous acts or other nations.[6] Lind further argues God fights so that Israel does not have to fight wars like other nations because God delivers them.[6]
God promised to fight for Israel, to be an enemy to their enemies and oppose all that oppose them (Exodus 23:22).[7] Pacifist God, John Howard Yoder explains, sustained and directed his community not by power politics but by the creative power of God’s word, of speaking through the law and the prophets.[8] The scriptures in the Old Testament provide background of God’s great victory over evil, sin and death. Stephen Vantassel contends the Old Testament exists to put the issue of war and killing in historical and situational context.[9]
The role of war is developed and changes throughout the Old Testament. Chapman asserts God used war to conquer and provide the Promised Land to Israel, and then to defend that land. The Old Testament explains that Israel does not have to fight wars like other nations because God delivers them.[5] Starting with the Exodus out of Egypt, God fights for Israel as a warrior rescuing his people from the oppressive Egyptians (Exodus 15:3).[10]
In Exodus 14:13,[11]Moses instructs the Israelites, “The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” The miraculous parting of the Red Sea is God being a warrior for Israel through acts of nature and not human armies.[6] God’s promise to fight on behalf of his chosen people is affirmed in the scriptures of the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 1:30).[12][13]
According to Old Testament scholar Peter C. Craige, during the military conquests of the Promised Land, the Israelites fought in real wars against real human enemies; however, it was God who granted them victory in their battles.[13] Craige further contends God determined the outcome of human events with his participation through those humans and their activity; essentially, that God fought through the fighting of his people.[13]
Once the Promised Land was secured, and the nation of Israel progressed, God used war to protect or punish the nation of Israel with his sovereign control of the nations to achieve his purposes (2 Kings 18:9–12, Jeremiah 25:8–9, Habakkuk 1:5–11).[14] Yoder affirms as long as Israel trusted and followed God, God would work his power through Israel to drive occupants from lands God willed them to occupy (Exodus 23:27–33).[15][8] The future of Israel was dependent solely on its faith and obedience to God as mediated through the Law and prophets, and not on military strength.[4]
Jacob Enz explains God made a covenant with his people of Israel, placing conditions on them that they were to worship only him, and be obedient to the laws of life in the Ten Commandments.[16] When Israel trusted and obeyed God, the nation prospered; when they rebelled, God spoke through prophets such as Ezekiel and Isaiah, telling Israel that God would wage war against Israel to punish her (Isaiah 59:15–19).[17][18] War was used in God’s ultimate purpose of restoring peace and harmony for the whole earth with the intention towards salvation of all the nations with the coming of the Messiah and a new covenant. Jacob Enz describes God’s plan was to use the nation of Israel for a higher purpose, and that purpose was to be the mediator between all the peoples and God.[16] The Old Testament reflects how God helped his people of Israel, even after Israel’s repeated lapses of faith, demonstrating God’s grace, not violence.[16]
The Old Testament explains God is the only giver of life and God is sovereign over human life. Man’s role is to be a steward who should take care of all of God’s creation, and that includes protecting human life. Craige explains God’s self-revelation through his participating in human history is referred to as “Salvation History.”[13] The main objective of God’s participation is man’s salvation. God participates in human history by acting through people and in the world that is both in need of salvation, and is thus imperfect. God participates in the human activity of war through sinful human beings for his purpose of bringing salvation to the world.[13]
Studies conducted by scholars Friedrich Schwally, Johannes Pedersen, Patrick D. Miller, Rudolf Smend and Gerhard von Rad maintain the wars of Israel in the Old Testament were by God’s divine command.[6] This divine activity took place in a world of sinful men and activities, such as war. God’s participation through evil human activity such as war was for the sole purposes of both redemption and judgment.[13] God’s presence in these Old Testament wars does not justify or deem them holy, and instead is interpreted as serving to provide hope in a situation of hopelessness.[13]
The sixth commandment, “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13) and the fundamental principle it holds true is that reverence for human life must be given the highest importance. The Old Testament points to a time when weapons of war shall be transformed into the instruments of peace, and the hope for the consummation of the Kingdom of God when there will be no more war.[13] Wood points to the scriptures of Isaiah and Micah (Isaiah 2:2–4; 9:5; 11:1–9; and Micah 4:1–7) that express the pacifist view of God’s plan to bring peace without violence.[4]
You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Several Church Fathers interpreted Jesus’ teachings as advocating nonviolence.[24] For example, Justin Martyr writes, “we who formerly used to murder one another do not only now refrain from making war upon our enemies, but also, that we may not lie nor deceive our examiners, willingly die confessing Christ,”[25] and, “we who were filled with war, and mutual slaughter, and every wickedness, have each through the whole earth changed our warlike weapons,—our swords into ploughshares, and our spears into implements of tillage,—and we cultivate piety…”.[26]Tatian writes that, “I am not anxious to be rich; I decline military command […] Die to the world, repudiating the madness that is in it [27] and Aristides writes that “Through love towards their oppressors, they persuade them to become Christians.”
[28]Hippolytus of Rome went so far as to deny soldiersbaptism: “A soldier of the civil authority must be taught not to kill men and to refuse to do so if he is commanded, and to refuse to take an oath. If he is unwilling to comply, he must be rejected for baptism.”[29]
Tertullian formed an early argument against statolatry, “There is no agreement between the divine and the human sacrament, the standard of Christ and the standard of the devil, the camp of light and the camp of darkness. One soul cannot be due to two masters—God and Cæsar,” also writing, “the People warred: if it pleases you to sport with the subject. But how will a Christian man war, nay, how will he serve even in peace, without a sword, which the Lord has taken away?”[30]
Origen, whose father Leonidus was martyred during the persecution of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus in the year 202 AD, writes, “Jews […] were permitted to take up arms in defence of the members of their families, and to slay their enemies, the Christian Lawgiver [has] altogether forbidden the putting of men to death […] He nowhere teaches that it is right for His own disciples to offer violence to any one, however wicked.”[31]
Further examples include Arnobius, “evil ought not to be requited with evil, that it is better to suffer wrong than to inflict it, that we should rather shed our own blood than stain our hands and our conscience with that of another, an ungrateful world is now for a long period enjoying a benefit from Christ”;[32]
Archelaus, “many [soldiers] were added to the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ and threw off the belt of military service”;[33]Cyprian of Carthage, “The whole world is wet with mutual blood; and murder, which in the case of an individual is admitted to be a crime, is called a virtue when it is committed wholesale”;[34]
Lactantius, “For when God forbids us to kill, He not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but He warns us against the commission of those things which are esteemed lawful among men. Thus it will be neither lawful for a just man to engage in warfare”;[35] while Gregory of Nyssa conveys the spirit of anarchism, “How can a man be master of another’s life, if he is not even master of his own? Hence he ought to be poor in spirit, and look at Him who for our sake became poor of His own will; let him consider that we are all equal by nature, and not exalt himself impertinently against his own race.”[36]
Saint Maximilian of Tebessa was executed by the order of the proconsul Dion for his refusal to serve in the Roman army as he thought killing was evil; he became recognized as a Christian martyr.[37] However, many early Christians also served in the army,[38][39] with multiple military saints before the time of Constantine, and the presence of large numbers of Christians in his army may have been a factor in the conversion of Constantine to Christianity.[40]Marcus Aurelius allegedly reported to the Roman Senate that his Christian soldiers fought with prayers instead of conventional weapons,[41] which resulted in the Rain Miracle[42] of the Marcomannic Wars.
After the Roman Emperor Constantine converted in AD 312 and began to conquer “in Christ’s name”, Christianity became entangled with the state, and warfare and violence were increasingly justified by influential Christians.
For example, Augustine of Hippo advocated for state persecution of Donatists,[43] while, according to Athanasius, “it is not right to kill, yet in war it is lawful and praiseworthy to destroy the enemy; accordingly not only are they who have distinguished themselves in the field held worthy of great honours, but monuments are put up proclaiming their achievements.”[44]
Some scholars believe that “the accession of Constantine terminated the pacifist period in church history.”[45] Nevertheless, the tradition of Christian pacifism was carried on by a few dedicated Christians throughout the ages, such as Martin of Tours, who converted during the early days of Christianity in Europe.
Martin, who was then a young soldier, declared in AD 336, “I am a soldier of Christ. I cannot fight.”[46] He was jailed for this action, but later released, eventually becoming just the third Bishop of Tours.[46]Jerome also writes, “To die is the lot of all, to commit homicide only of the weak man.”[47]
According to the Bonifacian hagiography, Boniface, in 754, set out with a retinue for Frisia, with the hope of converting the Frisians. He baptized a great number and summoned a general meeting for confirmation at a place not far from Dokkum, between Franeker and Groningen. Instead of his converts, however, a group of armed robbers appeared who slew the aged archbishop. The hagiography mention that Boniface persuaded his (armed) comrades to lay down their arms: “Cease fighting. Lay down your arms, for we are told in scripture not to render evil for evil but to overcome evil by good.”[48]
Having killed Boniface and his company, the Frisian bandits ransacked their possessions but found that the company’s luggage did not contain the riches they had hoped for: “they broke open the chests containing the books and found, to their dismay, that they held manuscripts instead of gold vessels, pages of sacred texts instead of silver plates.”[49]
The Peace and Truce of God was a movement in the Middle Ages led by the Catholic Church and the first mass peace movement in history.[50] The goal of both the Pax Dei and the Treuga Dei was to limit the violence of feuding endemic to the western half of the former Carolingian Empire – following its collapse in the middle of the 9th century – using the threat of spiritual sanctions.[51] The eastern half of the former Carolingian Empire did not experience the same collapse of central authority, and neither did England.[52]
The Peace of God was first proclaimed in 989, at the Council of Charroux. It sought to protect ecclesiastical property, agricultural resources and unarmed clerics.[53] The Truce of God, first proclaimed in 1027 at the Council of Toulouges, attempted to limit the days of the week and times of year that the nobility engaged in violence.
By the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas was bold enough to declare, concerning heretics, “I answer that […] it is lawful to kill dumb animals, in so far as they are naturally directed to man’s use, as the imperfect is directed to the perfect.”[54]
Cathars
Painting by Pedro Berruguete portraying the story of a disputation between Saint Dominic and the Cathars (Albigensians), in which the books of both were thrown on a fire and Dominic’s books were miraculously preserved from the flames.
Catharism was a Christian dualist or Gnostic movement between the 12th and 14th centuries which thrived in Southern Europe, particularly in northern Italy and southern France. Followers were described as Cathars and referred to themselves as Good Christians, and are now mainly remembered for a prolonged period of persecution by the Catholic Church, which did not recognize their unorthodox Christianity.
Catharism arrived in Western Europe in the Languedoc region of France in the 11th century.[55] While most information concerning Cathar belief was written by their accusers, and therefore may be inaccurate, purportedly they were strict pacifists and rigorous ascetics, abjuring war, killing, lying, swearing, and carnal relations in accordance with their understanding of the Gospel.
By rejecting the Old Testament, Cathars despised dogmatic elements of Christianity, while their Priests (Perfects) subsisted on a diet of little more than vegetables cooked in oil, or fish not a product of sexual union.[56][57]“Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.“ is a phrase reportedly spoken by the commander of the Albigensian Crusade, prior to the massacre at Béziers on 22 July 1209.[58] A direct translation of the Medieval Latin phrase is “Kill them. The Lord knows those that are his own.”
Lollardy
In this 19th-century illustration, John Wycliffe is shown giving the Bible translation that bore his name to his Lollard followers.
The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards, a 1395 document of Lollardy, asserts that Christians should refrain from warfare, and in particular that wars given religious justifications, such as crusades, are blasphemous because Christ taught men to love and forgive their enemies.
As early as 1420, Petr Chelčický taught that violence should not be used in religious matters.[59] Chelčický used the parable of the wheat and the tares[60] (Matthew 13:24–30)[61] to show that both the sinners and the saints should be allowed to live together until the harvest. He thought that it is wrong to kill even the sinful and that Christians should refuse military service. He argued that if the poor refused, the lords would have no one to go to war for them. Since then, many other Christians have made similar stands for pacifism as the following quotes show:
The Scriptures teach that there are two opposing princes and two opposing kingdoms: the one is the Prince of peace; the other the prince of strife. Each of these princes has his particular kingdom and as the prince is so is also the kingdom. The Prince of peace is Christ Jesus; His kingdom is the kingdom of peace, which is His church; His messengers are the messengers of peace; His Word is the word of peace; His body is the body of peace; His children are the seed of peace.
To our most bitter opponents we say: ‘We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We shall meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you.’
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. Therefore one who has love, courage, and wisdom is the one in a million who moves the world, as with Jesus, Buddha, and Gandhi.
“What do you mean by anarchist-pacifist?” First, I would say that the two words should go together, especially […] when more and more people, even priests, are turning to violence, and are finding their heroes in Camillo Torres among the priests, and Che Guevara among laymen. The attraction is strong, because both men literally laid down their lives for their brothers. “Greater love hath no man than this.” “Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.” Che Guevara wrote this, and he is quoted by Chicano youth in El Grito Del Norte.
— Dorothy Day (1897–1980), “On Pilgrimage — Our Spring Appeal”, Catholic Worker[65]
The first conscientious objector in the modern sense was a Quaker in 1815.[69] Some Quakers had originally served in Cromwell’s New Model Army before the peace testimony of Friends was issued after the restoration of the British monarchy in 1660. A number of Christian denominations have taken pacifist positions institutionally, including the Quakers and Mennonites.[70]
The term “historical peace churches” refers to three churches—the Church of the Brethren, the Mennonites and the Quakers—who took part in the first peace church conference, in Kansas in 1935, and who have worked together to represent the view of Christian pacifism. Of these, both Mennonites and the Schwarzenau Brethren are Anabaptist Churches.
Although the group had already separated from the Campbellites, a part of the Restoration Movement, after 1848 for theological reasons as the “Royal Assembly of Believers”, among other names, the “Christadelphians” formed as a church formally in 1863 in response to conscription in the American Civil War. They are one of the few churches to have been legally formed over the issue of Christian pacifism.[75]
The British and Canadian arms of the group adopted the name “Christadelphian” in the following year, 1864, and also maintained objection to military service during the First and Second World Wars. Unlike Quakers, Christadelphians generally refused all forms of military service, including stretcher bearers and medics, preferring non-uniformed civil hospital service.[76]
Churches of God (7th day)
The different groups evolving under the name Church of God (7th day) stand opposed to carnal warfare, based on Matthew 26:52; Revelation 13:10; Romans 12:19–21. They believe the weapons of their warfare to not be carnal but spiritual (II Corinthians 10:3–5; Ephesians 6:11–18).[77][78]
Doukhobors
The Doukhobors are a Spiritual Christian denomination that advocate pacifism.[79] On June 29, 1895, the Doukhobors, in what is known as the “Burning of the Arms”, “piled up their swords, guns, and other weapons and burned them in large bonfires while they sang psalms”.[80]
Holiness pacifists
The Wesleyan Methodist Church, one of the first Methodist denominations of the holiness movement, opposed war as documented in their 1844 Book of Discipline, that noted that the Gospel is in “every way opposed to the practice of War in all its forms; and those customs which tend to foster and perpetuate war spirit, [are] inconsistent with the benevolent designs of the Christian religion.”[81]
We feel bound explicitly to avow our unshaken persuasion that War is utterly incompatible with the plain precepts of our divine Lord and Law-giver, and with the whole spirit of the Gospel; and that no plea of necessity or policy, however urgent or peculiar, can avail to release either individuals or nations for the paramount allegiance which they owe to Him who hath said, “Love your enemies.” Therefore, we cannot participate in war (Rom. 12:19), war activities, or compulsory training.[81]
According to law professor Archibald Cox, Jehovah’s Witnesses in the United States were “the principal victims of religious persecution … they began to attract attention and provoke repression in the 1930s, when their proselytizing and numbers rapidly increased.”[89] At times, political and religious animosity against Jehovah’s Witnesses has led to mob action and governmental repression in various countries including the United States, Canada and Nazi Germany.
During World War II, Jehovah’s Witnesses were targeted in the United States, Canada, and many other countries because they refused to serve in the military or contribute to the war effort due to their doctrine of political neutrality. In Canada, Jehovah’s Witnesses were interned in camps[90] along with political dissidents and people of Japanese and Chinese descent.
Molokans
The Molokans are a Spiritual Christian denomination that advocate pacifism.[91] They have historically been persecuted for failing to bear arms.[92]
The Moravian Church historically adheres to the position of Christian pacifism, evidenced in atrocities such as the Gnadenhutten massacre, where the Lenape Moravian martyrs practiced nonresistance with their murderers, singing hymns until their execution by American revolutionaries.[93][94][95][96]
Most Quakers, also known as Friends (members of the Religious Society of Friends), hold peace as a core value, including the refusal to participate in war[97] going as far as forming the Friends’ Ambulance Unit with the aim of “co-operating with others to build up a new world rather than fighting to destroy the old”, and the American Friends Service Committee during the two World Wars and subsequent conflicts.[98]
Shakers
Shakers, who emerged in part from Quakerism in 1747, do not believe that it is acceptable to kill or harm others, even in times of war.[99]
Seventh-day Adventists
During the American Civil War in 1864, shortly after the formation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Seventh-day Adventists declared, “The denomination of Christians calling themselves Seventh-day Adventists, taking the Bible as their rule of faith and practice, are unanimous in their views that its teaching are contrary to the spirit and practice of war; hence, they have ever been conscientiously opposed to bearing arms.”[100]
The general Adventist movement from 1867 followed a policy of conscientious objection. This was confirmed by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1914. The official policy allows for military service in non-combative roles such as medical corps[101] much like Seventh-day Adventist Desmond Doss who was the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor and one of only three so honored, and other supportive roles which do not require to kill or carry a weapon.[102] In practice today, as a pastor from the Seventh-day Adventist church comments in an online magazine runs by members of the Seventh-day Adventist church: “Today in a volunteer army a lot of Adventist young men and women join the military in combat positions, and there are many Adventist pastors electing for military chaplaincy positions, supporting combatants and non-combatants alike. On Veteran’s Day, American churches across the country take time to give honor and respect to those who ‘served their country,’ without any attempt to differentiate how they served, whether as bomber pilots, Navy Seals, or Operation Whitecoat guinea pigs. I have yet to see a service honoring those who ran away to Canada to avoid participation in the senseless carnage of Vietnam in their Biblical pacifism.”[103]
Other denominations
Anglicanism
Lambeth Conference 1930 Resolution 25 declares that, “The Conference affirms that war as a method of settling international disputes is incompatible with the teaching and example of our Lord Jesus Christ.”[104] The 1948, 1958 and 1968 conferences re-ratified this position.[105]
The Anglican Pacifist Fellowship lobbies the various dioceses of the church to uphold this resolution and work constructively for peace.
Baptist
Some 400 Baptists refused combatant duty during World War II.[106]
…the subtle worm assumed the guise of no less a person than the Emperor himself, suggesting that he should become a convert to the new faith, so that the Church and he might work together for the greater glory of God. The bishops and fathers of the Church, ambitious for their organization, fell for this scheme, and Satan went off laughing to himself. He had got everything he had asked from Jesus three hundred years before; he had got the world’s greatest religion.[108]
The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you take a look at them. When the Roman emperor Constantine adopted Christianity he shifted it from a radical pacifist religion to the religion of the Roman Empire. So the cross, which was symbol of the suffering of the poor, was put on the shield of Roman soldiers. Since that time the Church has been pretty much the church of the rich and the powerful—the opposite of the message of the Gospels. Liberation theology, in Brazil particularly, brought the actual Gospels to peasants.[109]
19th-century Christian abolitionists and anarchistsAdin Ballou and William Lloyd Garrison were critical of the violent and coercive nature of all human governments. Ballou and Garrison advocated for nonresistance against the institution of slavery and imperialism, as they saw the Bible as the embodiment of “passive nonresistance” and the only way to achieve the new millennium on Earth. Instead of violence, they advocated for moral suasion or consistent rebukes against the institution of slavery so to persuade racist southerns and indifferent northerners to the abolitionist’s cause.
Garrison’s weekly abolitionist newspaper The Liberator (1831–1865) and Ballou’s Christian utopian commune the Hopedale Community (established in 1843 in Milford, Massachusetts) were also some of their key efforts in propagating Christian pacifism in the United States. Their writings on Christian nonresistance also influenced Leo Tolstoy‘s theo-political ideology and his non-fiction texts like The Kingdom of God is Within You.
From the beginning of the First World War, Christian pacifist organizations emerged to support Christians in denominations other than the historic peace churches. The first was the interdenominational Fellowship of Reconciliation (“FoR”), founded in Britain in 1915 but soon joined by sister organizations in the U.S. and other countries.
Today pacifist organizations serving specific denominations are more or less closely allied with the FoR: they include the Methodist Peace Fellowship (established in 1933), the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship (established in 1937), Pax Christi (Roman Catholic, established in 1945), and so forth.
The Network of Christian Peace Organisations (NCPO) is a UK-based ecumenical peace network of 28 organizations.[111] Some of these organizations do not take strictly pacifist positions, describing themselves instead as advocating nonviolence, and some either have members who would not consider themselves Christians or are explicitly interfaith. However, they share historical and philosophical roots in Christian pacifism.
In some cases Christian churches, even if not necessarily committed to Christian pacifism, have supported particular campaigns of nonviolent resistance, also often called civil resistance. Examples include the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (a grouping of churches in the southern United States) in supporting the Civil Rights Movement; the Chilean Catholic Church’s support for the civic action against authoritarian rule in Pinochet’s Chile in the 1980s; and the Polish Catholic Church’s support for the Solidarity movement in Poland in the 1980s.[112]
Walter Wink writes that “There are three general responses to evil: (1) passivity, (2) violent opposition, and (3) the third way of militant nonviolence articulated by Jesus. Human evolution has conditioned us for only the first two of these responses: fight or flight.”[113] This understanding typifies Walter Wink’s book, Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way.[114]
First World War
Ben Salmon was an American Catholic pacifist and outspoken critic of just war theory, as he believed all war to be unjust.[115] During the First World War, Salmon was arrested for refusing to complete a Selective Service and report for induction. He was court-martialed at Camp Dodge, Iowa on July 24, 1918, and sentenced to death. This was later revised to 25 years hard labor.[116] Salmon’s steadfast pacifism has since been cited as an inspiration for other Catholics, such as Fathers Daniel Berrigan and John Dear.[117][118]
The Episcopal bishop Paul Jones, who had associated himself with the Fellowship of Reconciliation and had been quite outspoken in his opposition to the war, was forced to resign his Utah see in April 1918.
In 1918, four Hutterite brothers from South Dakota, Jacob Wipf and David, Joseph and Michael Hofer were imprisoned at Alcatraz for refusing to fight in military or put on a military uniform; Joseph and Michael Hofer died in late 1918 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, due to the harsh conditions of the imprisonment.[119] In the Remembering Muted Voices symposium in October 2017, the lives and witness of World War I peace activists, including the four Hutterite brothers, were remembered. The symposium was sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union, Peace History Society, Plough Publishing House, and the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.[120]
In the winter of 1935–36, before the onset of World War II, Jehovah’s Witnesses have been reported to make up 20–40% of the prisoners in concentration camps.[121] Although Jehovah’s Witnesses made up the vast majority of those wearing the purple triangle, a concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify Jehovah’s Witnesses in Nazi Germany, a few members of other small pacifist religious groups were also included.[122][123][124]
The radical Christian pacifist[127]John Middleton Murry, changed his opinions on Christian pacifism in light of the Holocaust. In his early years as a writer of The Necessity of Pacifism (1937) and as editor of the weekly London newspaper, Peace News, he argued that Nazi Germany, should be allowed retain control of mainland Europe, arguing Nazism was a lesser evil compared to the horrors of a total war.[128][129]
During the Holocaust in Bulgaria, protests by Bulgarian public figures, among them Bulgarian Orthodox Church bishops Stefan of Sofia and Kiril of Plovdiv, leaders of professional organisations, and others – persuaded the Tsar first to stop the deportation of Jews temporarily in March 1943, and two months later to postpone it indefinitely.[131][132][133]
The Jews whose deportation from Bulgaria was halted, including all Sofia’s 25,743 Jews,[134][135] nonetheless had their property confiscated,[136][137][138] were forcibly relocated within the country, and all Jewish males between the ages of 20 and 46 were conscripted into the Labour Corps until September 1944.[139][140][138][137] The events that prevented the deportation to extermination camps of about 48,000[141] Jews in spring 1943 are termed the Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews. Although most Jews who were deported were murdered, the survival rate of the Jewish population in Bulgaria was one of the highest in Axis Europe.
Vera Brittain was another British Christian pacifist. She worked as a fire warden and by travelling around the country raising funds for the Peace Pledge Union‘s food relief campaign. She was vilified for speaking out against the saturation bombing of German cities through her 1944 booklet Massacre by Bombing. Her principled pacifist position was vindicated somewhat when, in 1945, the Nazi’sBlack Book of 2000 people to be immediately arrested in Britain after a German invasion was shown to include her name.[142] After the war, Brittain worked for Peace News magazine, “writing articles against apartheid and colonialism and in favour of nuclear disarmament” from a Christian perspective.[143]
Opposition to war has led some, like Ammon Hennacy, to a form of tax resistance in which they reduce their income below the tax threshold by taking up a simple living lifestyle.[151][152] These individuals believe that their government is engaged in immoral, unethical or destructive activities such as war, and paying taxes inevitably funds these activities.[153]
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