Pacifism means being against violence and war. It is a belief that conflicts should be solved through peaceful means, without using any form of aggression or force.
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Looking particularly at the Quakers and their use of
pacifism in anti-war protests and campaigning, the lesson aims to engage students in active critical thought and improve their awareness of how belief manifests in the real world.
Like Tocqueville, he acknowledged that in many ways America was exceptional and that, marshaled to extraordinary power, our ideals had done and could do much good in the world; hence his criticism of
Christian pacifism in the 1930s and defense of the Cold War in its early years.
When held to honestly, the just war tradition agrees
with pacifism in rejecting these three views.
The Party had a distinctive and suspicious foreign policy based
on pacifism.
I began to read more
about pacifism as the pamphlets filled my mailbox and news editorials became more and more passionate in favour of war.
Nonviolent resistance is primarily differentiated
from pacifism by the word «resistance.»
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.
This, after all, is the basis for
pacifism which, at its most basic holds that all war is wrong.
I find in my own tradition (as well as other traditions), the thought that
pacifism means doing nothing, just sitting by as violence occurs.
By contrast, the forms of
pacifism based on radical Christianity had not started out with a presumed ethical split between male and female genders.
And if that weren't enough, he «narrowly avoided a court martial when his novel The Adventures of Wesley Jackson was seen as
advocating pacifism!»
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Now, it seems to me that,
if pacifism of the messianic community is characterized by anything, it is characterized by a renunciation of all use of force, not simply «less violent alternatives.»
And how does your tradition deal with Matthew 10:34 — «Don't imagine I came to bring peace to the earth, I came to bring a sword» — which seems to be the quote
against pacifism among many in my tradition?
The second implication is a critical attitude
toward pacifism as a self - sufficient political party.
«I will do everything I can to stop my party becoming essentially a cheerleader, a vanguard for a sort of angry
intolerant pacifism which sets a myriad of preconditions which they know will never be met and and will ultimately say no to any military intervention.
But that does not make
pure pacifism, like no - torture absolutism, any less a form of moral foolishness, tinged with moral vanity....
A lesson to explore
what pacifism is, how it has been used in the past and if it is a reasonable attitude to take to war.
Expect things
like pacifism challenges and other rules - benders... and expect some tough - as - nails challenges too!
«It should also be made quite clear that Gadhafi was no more of a Muslim leader than Slobodan Milosevic or Robert Mugabe should be considered to be Christian leaders,» said Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and author of «
Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era.»
Our debates over
pacifism often obscure the fact that both the supporter of war who kills and the conscientious objector who risks allowing defenseless people to be killed both share the same fundamental moral dilemma in spite of their different ways of solving it.
The influence of Gandhi on
American pacifism and the development of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movements deserves careful study.
So what do I do when I turn on the TV to see news of another shooting, when I realize that neither political party comes close to representing the radical teachings of Jesus, when I get tired of receiving emails from «Save Darfur,» when I look in the mirror and see the worst sinner who has ever walked the earth, when I honestly have no idea how to resolve the question of
how pacifism could ever be justified in light of Auschwitz and Buchenwald?
We can rephrase this question, which will set the agenda for the next songbook entry, as follows: «what is it with
modern pacifism that makes it so unpeaceful?»
Back in the 1940's, when Reinhold Niebuhr started Christianity in Crisis to support the war against Nazism, he abandoned his
earlier pacifism, and his earlier too - simply pious way of wishing evil away, and called for a new tough - minded Christian realism.
But # 5 only considered a single verse, one representative of how rock
espouses pacifism (when it does), or more accurately, of how it espouses «anti-war-ism.»
From Kim: As someone who
finds pacifism compelling in theory, though not necessarily in practice, how do feel about physically defending others?