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List of Chapters | Main Menu | Contact | About Futurepower ® Under the stress of conflict, people show how they truly think. It has always annoyed me that people who call themselves Christian often reveal that they don't really believe in the important messages of Christianity, and that they don't even understand those messages. Basically, Jesus Christ's idea of not returning violence with violence means that we can vigorously protect ourselves, but that any response must be the true minimum necessary to achieve security. This is a theory that can be recommended even to the majority of people in the world who are not Christian. The theory seems to fit the facts. The facts seem to be that violence always has severely negative side-effects that overwhelm any effect that might be seen as positive. An October 12, 2001 article from USA Today shows just one example of a negative side-effect of using violence to try to stop violence: Northern Alliance has bloody past, critics warn [usatoday.com]. In its print edition, USA Today is the only national general news newspaper in the United States. The article says, In a fever to rout [rout = defeat] the killers who attacked New York and Washington, the United States is making common cause [making common cause = allying] with rebels in Afghanistan who have themselves been accused by human rights officials of killing thousands of innocent people, burning homes and committing acts of ethnic cleansing. [The definitions are given for those for whom English is a second language.] The theory that it is self-destructive to use violence to stop violence needs no support from religion. It can be independently supported by the extremely careful logic of scientific thinking. List of Chapters | Main Menu | Contact | About Futurepower ® | Go to top Futurepower
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