http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/news/comment NewsComment page en http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/cpt/article_060823wink.shtml <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>The belief that violence “saves” is so successful because it doesn’t seem to be mythic in the least. Violence simply appears to be the nature of things. It’s what works. It seems inevitable, the last and, often, the first resort in conflicts. If a god is what you turn to when all else fails, violence certainly functions as a god. What people overlook, then, is the religious character of violence. It demands from its devotees an absolute obedience- unto-death.</p> </div> </div> </div> http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/cpt/article_060823wink.shtml#comment Peace and War News Brief myth of redemptive violence non violence nonviolence peacemaking Walter Wink Comment Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:49:01 +0000 Walter Wink 6268 at http://www.ekklesia.co.uk