Sentences with phrase «innocent against an aggressor»
True Christians were not permitted to serve in the military or otherwise participate in war or even commit violent acts until the concept of the «just war» — fighting only when doing so was required to protect the innocent against an aggressor — was developed hundreds of years after the death of Christ.
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Further, the shift in the focus of his argument from opposing capital punishment to opposing violence generally, even when it is exercised by the civil government against aggressors who would harm innocent people, would result in real injustice.