I’m pretty sure soldiers, police men, and wardens wouldn’t take kindly to statements like yours. Pacifism is a joke. All it does is promote weakness and cowardice.
Your statement is just as much in error here as you believe Kinja to be. Strength and Courage come in many forms. Do you honestly believe that the Apostles were “Weak” and “Cowardly” when they allowed themselves to be martyred? Do you believe that Maximilion Kolbe was Weak when he volunteered to die in anothers place in a Nazi Concentration camp? Do you think that Pope John Paul II was weak or cowardly when he forgave the man who tried to kill him?
These things that you label “Pacifism” and seem to are “weak and cowardly”, in many cases require far greater strength of will and courage and endurance and forebearance than striking out in a fit of violent retribution.
Don’t you mean the other way around? Violence
stopped Japan. It brought the nation to its knees and taught everyone a lesson.
Yes it was "war that Stopped and defeated Japan. It was also Japan’s incredible Pride that forced the Allies to use the Atomic Bomb.
But what lesson was learned. Is the World safer today? Genocide is occuring in Africa. Terrorism is occurring in various places. Wars, revolutions, Violent Evil continues to spring up. So what “lesson” was learned by “everyone”?
Are you saying that you would rather have had more than 6 million Jews murdered than the war that ended his regime?
Of course in order to End that regime, the western Allies made a pact with Stalin’s Russia. A regime that killed more on the order of 20 million people, Jews and others in various purges. This regime, the Soviet one, continued for another 50 or so years before collapsing.
Hitlers regme was not attacked by the Allies because of it’s Evil policies, but because it became a military Agressor, just as Japan did. The war was not about combating evil, it was about combating agression.
That you would wish China, Korea, the Philippines (my own country) and the rest of Asia remained enslaved by Japanese military dictators like Hirohito?
Hirohito was an Emporer with little to no power. Tojo was the Military dictator.
No one will deny that the Second world war defeated two very aggressive dictatorships. But it also left in place another very aggressive and evil dictatorship, and led the wy to a second one. Red Russia and Red China. This led to wars in Korea and in Vietnam, laos and Cambodia. I’m sure other instances of bloodshed and revolution etc. can be cited in the Western Pacific that I am not aware of.
So it can be seen that the defeat of “evil” using the tools of “evil” has not occurred. Evil still exists.
God is not some genie that would miraculously solve your problems as long as you just sat there “praying”.
How do you know that. Did not jesus Promise that Faith the size of a mustard seed could move mountains?? Seems you need to look more carefully at how much faith you put in the promises of Christ.
He works in ways we cannot understand and that goes for both people who abuse violence as a solution and people who abuse pacifism. In your case though, you oughta wake up to the fact that avoiding violence is just as bad a solution as resorting to it all the time.
There may be times when violent response is required. But only as a last resort.
I’d rather jump on the nearest boat in case of a flood than sit around praying an angel would swoop down and lift me out of it.
Unless that nearest boat was full of fire that was consuming all who boarded it.
No, it means I make use of what the Lord has given me to protect myself than run and hide behind Him like some baby.
You need to study more on spiritual warfare and less on Physical warfare. Your soul will be the better for it.
Peace
James
