Why are some christians pacifists?

Answer 1

Because they are gay pussies))) roflcopter

• Because they might believe in piece.
• Because innocent people die.
• Because they believe that Jesus was a pacifist.
• Because one of the 10 commandments is 'Do not Kill.'

Answer 2

Because throughout The Bible we are told time and time again to love our enemies, and it is hard to see how you can love someone yet still be prepared to drop a bomb on their house. The sermon on the mount (Matthew ch 5,6,7) makes it clear that christians are not to seek revenge, nor to repay violence with violence. Instead it calls us to respond to an oppressor with a kind of subversive love. Turning the other cheek doesn't mean letting yourself be hit again, but is an example of disempowering the aggressor, in the culture of the day you'd be slapped on the right cheek with the back of the right hand, to offer the other cheek would call for the hitter to use his left hand, which would be dishonouring to him; hit with the palm of his hand, again dishonouring to him that is how a woman or child would hit; or he could hit you with his fist, which would mean he was treating you as an equal, which again isn't what he is trying to establish. This and the other examples aren't meant as concrete responses, but were offered as examples of the kind of response that could defeat an aggressor without resorting to violence. We are not called upon to defeat evil by overpowering it with bigger guns, but to undermine it with a subversive love and imaginative responses to the aggressor. It is a harder path to tread, but it the path we are called to walk.