So who would you kill to stop the ethnic and tribal genocide?
You guard food convoys. You defeat attempts to stop and block the convoys. You protect people. You seek out and neutralize the leaders of the various violent groups.
It is actually an interesting comparison, since the situation is the perpetuation of a long cycle of violence.
Which it is why it can only be stopped with the defeat of one side or the other.
I was referring to the fact that nearly a billion people have been effected by non violent resistance movements in just the last few decades. But since you raised the point, if you think guns and might are the answer in Darfur, how can you vote GOP in good faith?
I assume you think your question has some meaning, but whatever it is, it escapes me.
Funny, the early Christians used this against Rome and seemed to not only survive extinction, but thrive and prosper.
No, they didn’t – and to say they did indicates a very shallow understanding of Christian history.
Christians prayed. But they also hid. They operated underground networks. They communicated in code. They used bribery, subterfuge, and secret networks of friends. And at times, they capitulated and then sprung back when the heat was off (that’s what the Donatist heresy is all about.)
Christians also vigorously proclaimed their loyalty to the Empire, and publicly prayed for the success of the Emperor’s Armies.
Christians served in the Army – in such numbers that a contender for the Imperial throne, Constantine, was able not only to attract support by favoring the Christians, but sap support from his opponent.
But, again, it is a huge leap of faith. You have to take the risk that following Christ, even at the cost of this life, will not go unrewarded. Of course it is much easier to cling to the life we see and know, even at the expense of others, but is that what Jesus did?
Jesus expected us to work, not to sit on our thumbs and allow evil to continue.
If you truly believe He is our Lord, how can you doubt that he had the power to preserve his own life?
Are you telling me that I don’t believe He could preserve His own life?
Please give me a quote justifying that false accusation.
Could he not have crushed his foes? But the example he set on the day of his own crucifixion was comletely different. He comforted the women, gave solice to the prisoner beside Him, and asked for the forgiveness of His persecutors.
You seem to be arguing that following that example is impractical because it can get you killed. But if you belief in His word, His new covenant, how does the ‘getting killed’ part really matter?
Again and again and again, you seek to recast your opponents’ arguments, accusing them of saying things they didn’t say, attributing to them positions they never took.
Would
Jesus do a thing like that?
