From their fat oozes out malice, their hearts drip with cunning. Violence is the tool of the brutish. Look, the wicked are drawing their bows, fitting their arrows to the string to shoot the honest from the shadows . . . All who resort to violence believe their cause is just, their goal is right, their aims worthy of the utmost in devotion or patriotic fervor. And those few goals which may seem to jibe with the ways of God are totally undermined once human violence is brought in.
History is change.
And with those, God expects us to be faithful. We believe that violence of any kind is contrary to the way of God. And the Christian Scriptures identify Jesus as a perfect embodiment of that vision. We believe, however, that the Scriptures call us to be more than people who abstain from violence. The Other Side seeks as well to embody the courageous spirit of pacifism.