Intentions, of course, are always good. The worse the fight, the higher its justification.Justifiedviolence is the worst. Unjustified violence bursts out of a bad character or bad feelings, but it doesn't go very far. But when people feel justified in the use of violence, it becomes systematic and leads to all the horrors of history.
- Lanza del Vasto (1901-1981) was a poet, Christian mystic, and
nonviolent activist.
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the wanderings of an Australian evangelical who grew up in the hard-right Reformed Presbyterian Church, passed through the Presbyterian and Sydney Anglican scenes, landing in a unique evangelical, socially engaged, charismatic Uniting Church.
Meanwhile he studied comparative religion and political economics and lived in four Christian communities approximating intentional community and halfway houses in equal parts.
Here he ponders: 'What are you doing more than others?'(Matt 5:47)
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