It's all quite conventional (including the inevitable showdown match
between the pacifist Ip Man and the brutal Japanese commander who wants prove the superiority of Japanese martial arts and humiliate the Chinese citizens under his rule) and nonetheless rousing.
Not exact matches
There's a distinction
between Jesus and the cult leaders / murderers you cited: Jesus was a
pacifist.
This creates a false dichotomy
between a liberal,
pacifist, feminist Jesus and a reactionary, violent, and patriarchal Judaism, a dichotomy that in turn sets the stage for new and modern anti «Judaism.
Circa late 1969, the Airplane seems to sense that the generalized radical community needs some encouragement, a pep rally of sorts to get them past all the spirit - draining confusions that had been piling up, and all the minor divisions radicals had made
between one another in the course of late -»60s intensity, you know, naturalist communalists v. wired hipsters,
pacifists v. biker gangs, Hare Krishnas v. Shamans, old - school SDS - ers v. the new Weathermen - types, angry feminists v. «Ramblin» Man» swingers, Black Panthers v. white hippies, Maoists v. anarchists, health - foodies v. druggies, etc., etc., and to focus instead on the big divide
between all of them and the Establishment.
Between the wars a broad
pacifist sentiment had developed.
The connections
between patriarchy, violence and war which were first explored by feminist
pacifists in the first decades of the 20th Century have been revived today.
Efforts to mobilize Christians for political ends may be unprecedentedly massive on the right and are by no means lacking on the left; but as is illustrated by antiabortion alliances
between Roman Catholics and conservative evangelicals and by antiwar protests gathering together both Christian
pacifists and nonpacifists, these groupings are indifferent to ecumenism because, among other things, it has no public influence.
The
pacifist puts the primary stress on love, but does not ordinarily make this disjunction
between love and justice.
Ever since World War I, when the the likes of the UK Labour Party, the Australian Labor Party and the German Social Democratic Party split over the slaughter in the trenches, left - of - centre parties have been divided
between a principled
pacifist wing and what has normally been a majority prepared to back military force when considered necessary.
The differences over Trident, aired in the city where Labour's only
pacifist leader, George Lansbury, failed to persuade trade union leaders of the need to disarm in 1935, go to the heart of the differences
between Labour's two wings.
Bard tries to act as
pacifist as tensions
between dwarves and elves come to a boil.
What I thought New Mutants — and the larger X-Universe — needed was a new voice as the entire mutant franchise at that point was balanced
between Charles Xavier, a
pacifist who wanted to live among mankind, and Magneto, who was more like «we have to destroy them, they're the enemy.»
Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension
between his father — an ardent
pacifist — and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight
between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state.