``... a super polished stealth platformer from Klei, and is maybe most remarkable for the fact that it's the first game that's given me the choice
between pacifism and genocide and I've not just chosen but almost like lusted to kill every single person — it's an incredibly satisfying game all around.»
We are drawn to their soulful wavering, both
between pacifism 2 and second - hand Leninism, and between a Hope placed upon the advent of Change and a suspicion there are timeless barriers to it.
I am struggling to see the difference
between pacifism and what PrayerPunk has been describing.
It is the right of nations and governments to go to war and execute criminals, but Christians should always be pleading and seeking for a middle ground
between Pacifism and Just War (For an excellent proposal on how this works, I highly recommend Walter Wink's book, Engaging the Powers.
Not exact matches
That's because there aren't a lot of Jews in Indonesia... and yes, throughout history when Christians have been attacked, there's been a back and forth
between them and their attacker, ever since Christianity gave up on
pacifism in the 3rd century and started skinning heretics alive (look up the story of Hypatia).
< > Or Buddhists, or Hindus, or Shintos, or Yorumba, or Lakota... < > That's because there aren't a lot of Jews in Indonesia... and yes, throughout history when Christians have been attacked, there's been a back and forth
between them and their attacker, ever since Christianity gave up on
pacifism in the 3rd century and started skinning heretics alive (look up the story of Hypatia).
Do you believe there is a difference
between nonviolent resistance and
pacifism?
Niebuhr, Branch says, touched King «on all his tender points from
pacifism and race to sin,» and, though the two men apparently never met, King took from Niebuhr an appreciation of a creative tension
between love and justice that would henceforth inform his politics.
The deepest tragedy of our age is the division
between ideologies represented by Whitehead's national loyalty in World War I versus Russell's
pacifism.
I do agree, at least in part, with Mr. Bottum's distinction
between «soft» and «hard»
pacifism.
Hauerwas»
pacifism, in my view, is pivotal in his response to modernism and the concomitant capacity of humans to commit omnicide; it is crucial to how he develops an ethics of character and virtue, the Christian story, and the relationship
between the church and the world.
From Kerry: I often think of Bonhoeffer when I think of
pacifism... he talked about sometimes having to choose
between one bad thing (Hitler) and another bad thing (killing Hitler).
But Yoder's Christological commitments do make it impossible for there to be any fundamental confusion
between these kinds of
pacifisms.
In practice, the difference
between militarism and
pacifism is often contextual or ideological, not simply a question of the gender of decision makers.
But ultimately, it's the Billy - Marty dialectic —
between low art and high, violence and
pacifism, movie and movie critique — that provides the film with its narrative spine.