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Which response to evil will you endorse, Christian reader? Uncle Matthew / Jesus / nonviolence or violence?

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” - Dwight Eisenhower Brutality. Futility. Stupidity. Those are not words that describe the life the Messiah calls his followers to live.

“You people speak so lightly of war; you don’t know what you’re talking about. War is a terrible thing!” - William Tecumseh Sherman Jesus instructs his disciples to do good, not terrible.

“Prayer is an antidote against every evil.” - George Whitefield

“It is a God-like thing, though we are wronged by others, yet to be the first in seeking after peace.” - Thomas Brooks

“The doctrine of the Just War can deceive a person into thinking that because a war is just, it is actually a good thing. But behind contemporary war theory lies the idea that war is always bad. A just war is permissible because it’s a lesser evil, but it’s still an evil.”...

“Prayer is an antidote against every evil.” - George Whitefield

* Reminder. The straw is innocent until proven guilty. *

Zabelka speech continued to the end. ”Thank God that I’m able to stand here today and speak out against war, all war. The prophets of the Old Testament spoke out against all false gods of gold, silver, and metal. Today we are worshipping the gods of metal, the bomb. We are putting our trust in...

Zabelka speech continued. ”The bombing of Nagasaki means even more to me than the bombing of Hiroshima. By August 9, 1945, we knew what that bomb would do, but we still dropped it. We knew that agonies and sufferings would ensue, and we also knew - at least our leaders knew - that it was not...

Zabelka speech continued. ”All religions have taught brotherhood. All people want peace. It is only the governments and war departments that promote war and slaughter. So today again I call upon people to make their voices heard. We can no longer just leave this to our leaders, both political...

Zabelka speech continued. ”I was there, and I was wrong. Yes, war is hell, and Christ did not come to justify the creation of hell on earth by his disciples. The justification of war may be compatible with some religions and philosophies, but it is not compatible with the nonviolent teaching of...

Mt Sinai came long after the creation.

Zabelka speech continued. ”Now, brothers and sisters, on the anniversary of this terrible atrocity carried out by Christians, I must be the first to say that I made a terrible mistake. I was had by the father of lies. I participated in the big ecumenical lie of the Catholic, Protestant, and...

Zabelka speech continued. ”Today the world is on the brink of ruin because the church refuses to be the church, because we Christians have been deceiving ourselves and the non-Christian world about the truth of Christ. There is no way to follow Christ, to love as Christ loved, and...

Zabelka speech continued. ”For the 300 hundred years immediately following Jesus’ resurrection, the church universally saw Christ and his teaching as nonviolent. Remember that the church taught this ethic in the face of at least three serious attempts by the state to liquidate her. It was...

Zabelka speech continued. ”SO THE WORLD IS WATCHING TODAY. Ethical hairsplitting over the morality of various types of instruments and structures of mass slaughter is not what the world needs from the church, although it is what the world has come to expect from the followers of Christ. What...

Waging spiritual war on physical war.

Zabelka speech continued. ”The morality of the balance of terrorism is a morality that Christ never taught. The ethics of mass butchery cannot be found in the teachings of Jesus. In Just War ethics, Jesus Christ, who is supposed to be all in the Christian life, is irrelevant. He might as well...