Tuesday, May 13, 2008

religion blurb...what's a pacifist to do?

from Robert M Price: "I once believed in pacifism--until I heard an eloquent defense of it. We were at Princeton Theological Seminary. I was talking to a man who had given up ministerial training to take up the law. He wanted to serve the urban poor who could not afford high-priced lawyers. A radical Christian, to be sure, and, sure enough, a pacifist. Someone asked the inevitable question: if he was so opposed to using force to repel aggression, what would he do should he discover some intruder making ready to rape his wife? His answer? He would not use violence because that would show a lack of faith both in his wife’s ingenuity to extricate herself from the situation, and in God who might be planning some miraculous deliverance at the last possible moment. I had heard enough."