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Fuark, I forgot to refute this. Give me a bitI think you just have a very broad definition of pacifism. Turning the other cheek is meant to not let small slights turn into larger conflicts as it’s counterproductive for a people to fight against each other of inconsequential things. The same is with the text of love thy neighbor. It’s telling you to treat your neighbors well and not to sweat the small stuff. This is all to create a cohesive society that can work towards goals without falling into pointless infighting.
Well that’s your problem
Are you 12? The Crusades were called by the Pope to invade the Middle East and people across all European kingdoms at the time came to take the holy land. Pagans would only care if their individual kingdom got invaded and thus the large amount of soldiers would have never been sent there since the other kingdoms wouldn’t care.
It’s obviously corrupted it takes no effort to see that. Prosteantism formed because of this corruption. I’m not gonna argue about whether that was right or not because hundreds of more learned men have already made those biblical arguments which you can take the time to read yourself.
You missed my point. I was talking about morality not cultural institutions. Any moral argument is based on moral axioms which were provided to us through scripture. These fundamental ideas about the world like the value of life are the bedrock for which our civilization understands the world. Though on the individual it is definitely a Christian idea where everyone is equal under god and thus no man is superior to another and should be allowed to exploit others as inferiors.