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  • The Trouble with Pacifism

    Pacifism is an approach to humanity where you give the Stronger permission to kill you.

    A Christian believes that they will live beyond death, and so death is not so troublesome.  ”Kill me?  Ok, I will live forever in a new body.”    This is the only comfort to a Christian.  There is no solace from God-having-Revenge-on-them fantasies.  Just as God provided forgiveness and justice in Jesus Christ for you, he also provides it for your killer.  There is no solace from believing that God might rescue you from the Stronger.  He very well may!  But that is not the fundamental hope for a Christian.  God certainly did not spare his own Son from the Stronger.

    But Pacifism as a policy beyond the individual is the equivalent to coercing someone else to allow themselves to be killed by the Stronger.  

    Is it possible to coerce Christianly?  (Can a pacifist coerce?)  I don’t believe it is a possible faithful action.

    Posted on June 15, 2009 Share Via Facebook
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