Confronting Religious Violence

Can the Christian faith be seen as a contributor to more peaceful environment? With that question in mind, I’m articulating some of the important resources for creating and sustaining the culture of peace by eradicating violence. I am not, however, trying to argue that Christianity doesn’t endorse violence or at least historically, less associated with violence than any other religions in the world. This argument is neither necessary or relevant to my point.
Arguments about religion, God and violence touch our lives in close proximity following one’s religious identity, fervor and motivation provided by the faith itself. Now, it is a common knowledge that much violence that goes in the name of religion has little to do with religion. Those …show more content…
It is plausible that Jesus died because he confronted the Roman Empire, because he organized resistance and a very dangerous one to be exact which is based on laughter as a weapon of mass disruption. Jesus went point to point, holding up the God and of the great Jewish prophetic tradition calling for social and economic justice and compassion and care for the least. At the powerful and rich, when someone is effectively attacking them will counter-attack and that’s how Jesus died. He died because he organized non-violent creative strategic resistance to colonial …show more content…
As Hays points out, Christian theologians have offered all sorts of explanations to demonstrate why – in relation both to Jesus’ teaching on violence and on other subjects – Jesus’ words should not be interpreted or applied in the way that would at first seem obvious. These explanations range from claiming that Jesus was concerned with the will of heart but not with actions, to suggesting that the most rigorous commandments are directed towards the counsels of perfection, or that pacifism is a perfect ideal that should never be applied to real