A while back a friend was ribbing me about not being a pacifist as I claim. He sited my not so passive manner of being as evidence.
Passive is what is expected. To a certain extent we have lived up to the label the mainstream has given us—we are passive. We are not the upsetters of the culture of violence. I ran across an article written by Albert Einstein on Pacifism. In it he calls himself a militant pacifist. And he calls others to initiate an aggressive campaign against violence.
The full article is here.
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thanks for the link.
That's why I more often say that I am committed to gospel nonviolence than say that I am pacifist. But the word never meant passive--it came from the Latin pax facere, to make peace.
great link. I was just looking for this article after reading a book about Non-violence that referenced it.
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