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“The kingdom that Christ established through his cross comes without any wars, without any battlefields, without any killing of enemies. Whatever justifies violence as a necessary means to a legitimate end is never the kingdom of heaven—
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…it’s only the latest iteration of Babylon. As citizens of the kingdom of heaven we persuade by love, witness, reason, rhetoric, Spirit, and if need be, martyrdom, but never by violence.”
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This is fire! I would also add to the end “never by coercion.”

- Brian Zahnd, from The Wood Between the Worlds, chapter, “The Lamb Upon the Throne.
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