Christians and non violence

"The whole point of Christianity, on a personal level, is a refusal to use violence even in self-defence and even when one's own life is threatened. For centuries, this radical nonviolence was celebrated by the church in its canonisation of martyrs...Martyrdom was the first and ultimate form of nonviolent resistance to injustice and, like the Christian-rooted civil rights movement or Gandhi's campaign for independence, it was precisely this staggering refusal to defend oneself... that changed global consciousness. It was what made Christians different." - Andrew Sullivan  (http://ht.ly/hdH2P)

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