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Our staff is reading The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian McLaren right now. We\u2019re blowing through it pretty fast, but today we finished with Chapter 17 \u2013 The Peaceable Kingdom, a chapter on non-violence. McLaren has a few interesting comments about Christian non-violence.\n

\u201cThose who are committed to non-violence based on the teachings of Jesus \u2013 if they are wrong now \u2013 will someday be right.\u201d He\u2019s saying that one day violence will be a thing of the past, and this is part of what God is doing in the world. One day those who are committed to non-violence will be viewed not unlike early abolitionists. They are ahead of their time.<\/li>\n
Every nation who goes to war calls their enemy evil. Jesus commanded us to love our enemy, instead of calling them evil.<\/li>\n
This is the most interesting point he makes: \u201cwe need to realize that both our enemies and we ourselves have a common enemy\u2026 lust, greed, anger, and hate [that] thrust us into conflict and war\u2026 Every warring nation emphasizes the evil of its enemy; few resist the temptation to minimize their own evil. Fewer still realize that the same evils are at work in both \u2018them\u2019 and \u2018us,\u2019 and therefore pose a common, universal enemy \u2013 and it is this universal enemy that the\u00a0kingdom of God fights with its weapons \u2018not of this world.'\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
So here\u2019s my question:\u00a0Is Jesus\u2019s vision for how the kingdom of God will advance opposed to violence? And if it is, then why is Christian\u00a0non-violence not an essential teaching in contemporary American\u00a0Christianity? What did the tradition you grew up around teach about violence?<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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