Essay On Pacifism

I hope all is well with you since I didn’t see you in bible study today. The Sunday school teacher went on to explain last week’s concept of pacifism, a concept that you didn’t seem to understand to well. I know that you I am writing to you today to explain what the word pacifism means since it seemed as if you were confused as to what it means. Now, when the Sunday school teacher discussed pacifism last week, you thought that pacifism and passivism were one in the same and in reality, they have two completely different meanings. Passivism is when a person allows a situation to transpire without doing anything about it because they are scared to disrupt the peace. Pacifism, on the other hand, is a word that simply means “to make peace” and it’s rooted in the words “facere and pax.”
The purpose of pacifism is different from passivism because unlike …show more content…
The rest of the information I gave you is just to help understand the concept of pacifism better than you do now. Because you’ve been given a solid definition of pacifism, the different levels that it has and background information, I will now give you the Pacifist model, which are, in a way, Ten Commandments that pacifists follow. This will help you to understand the beliefs of a pacifist person. The first belief of the pacifist model is that we, as human beings, are innately calm. Being at peace is essentially who we are on the inside and outside and though conflict is a part of our lives, the ultimate goal of conflict is to overcome it and to obtain peace. The second belief of the pacifist model is that at the base of equality is social justice. Unless we live in a society where everyone is on equal footing, there can be no genuine peace among us. The third belief of the pacifist model is that humans should have love for their