{"id":3302,"date":"2006-10-06T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2006-10-06T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T11:15:00","slug":"a-bit-more-on-non-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3302","title":{"rendered":"A bit more on non-violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another excellent ‘ten propositions’ from Kim Fabricius here<\/a>. Thing is, I’m still resistant to it (tho’ the resistance is crumbling, I think).<\/p>\n

The root of my objection comes back to my notion that non-violence can become an idol, and lying behind that is my initial absorption of the idea (Tillich via a tutor) that the Ultimate cannot be named; anything that can be named and identified is not ultimate, therefore not absolute, therefore can be broken.<\/p>\n

If non-violence is made an absolute, I just suspect that something might go wrong. Of course, the acceptance of violence has radically demonstrated ‘things going wrong’ in spades. Yet that just makes a rigorous just-war stance all the more necessary. I think that’s why – for now – I’d want to stick with the just-war tradition, despite what Kim says about it.<\/p>\n

There’s also a thought that death itself is not an absolute evil – and so should not be made into an absolute evil within a moral system (without denying that it IS an evil).<\/p>\n

A thought occurred to me today at Morning Prayer. If Judas hadn’t killed himself, and came back to the disciples in penitence, would he have been embraced by the risen Lord?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another excellent ‘ten propositions’ from Kim Fabricius here. Thing is, I’m still resistant to it (tho’ the resistance is crumbling, I think). The root of my objection comes back to my notion that non-violence can become an idol, and lying … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Rg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}