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  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

non-violence

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    A passage on non-violence: Matthew 26:52

    "Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword." Violence and hate only create more violence and hate, no matter how good the intentions are. In the immortal words of Martin Luther King Jr.: "Hate begets hate; violence begets violence...
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    Does Christ's cleansing of the Temple contradict what he would later say in Matthew 26:52?

    Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. -Matthew 21:12 “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the...
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    Early Christians on Violence

    So today I'll be trying to show you through many early Christian sources that Non-violence even in the face of death was the universal way on the Early Church. I think it's important to know what our earliest brothers and sisters thought, and I hope this gives you a new outlook. The sources will...
  4. Fish and Bread

    Pope Francis Embraces Charity and Non-Violence