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<\/a>It\u2019s not a secret, I am pro-peace; you could even say I\u2019m a Pacifist.\u00a0Keep in mind,\u00a0being pro-peace is more then simply being a Pacifist. Being pro-peace\u00a0means I am unwilling to accept war, violence, revenge, or destruction at any level.<\/p>\nThe way I see it,\u00a0war, violence, revenge,\u00a0and destruction, in any form,\u00a0is not part of our faith, or at least it shouldn\u2019t be.\u00a0Looking back,\u00a0our faith accepted war, violence, revenge,\u00a0and destruction soon after it became the official religion of the Roman State. When the Christian faith became the official faith<\/em> of the State, we started to gain power, and that power corrupted the teachings of Christ to fit the needs of the State. War, violence, revenge,\u00a0and destruction\u00a0are wrong, no matter how you define it, no matter how you justify it, no matter what you use as logic to defend it, no matter what the State says\u00a0\u2013 they are all simply wrong. The idea that anyone would take the life of another seems so far beyond my reasoning, so far beyond\u00a0the scope of\u00a0my faith, that it is simply impossible for me to support at any level, for any reason.<\/p>\nWhat good comes from killing? Taking the life of another will not solve anything, it just keeps the cycle of hate running wild. My stomach turns when I hear of innocent people being killed just because they were in the area \u2013 but the part that burns my spirit even more, is that those who claim to follow Christ writing off this killing as \u201cthe cost of war<\/em>.\u201d Instead of speaking out against the killing, they sit back and give excuses for the killing, they strive to explain<\/em> it away as just something that happens \u2013 well, I\u2019m disgusted, and all Followers of Christ should be.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s not a secret, I am pro-peace; you could even say I\u2019m a Pacifist.\u00a0Keep in mind,\u00a0being pro-peace is more then simply being a Pacifist. Being pro-peace\u00a0means I am unwilling to accept war, violence, revenge, or destruction at any level. The way I see it,\u00a0war, violence, revenge,\u00a0and destruction, in any form,\u00a0is not part of our faith, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2697,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,9,11,15,20],"tags":[29,50,56,59,61,62,65],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church","category-good","category-grace","category-love","category-peace","category-theology","tag-care","tag-grace","tag-jesus","tag-love","tag-mercy","tag-missional","tag-peace"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>It\u2019s not a secret, I am pro-peace; you could even say I\u2019m a Pacifist.\u00a0Keep in mind,\u00a0being pro-peace is more then simply being a Pacifist. Being pro-peace\u00a0means I am unwilling to accept war, violence, revenge, or destruction at any level.<\/p>\n