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  2. Christianity and violence - Wikipedia

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    Christians have had diverse attitudes towards violence and nonviolence over time. Both currently and historically, there have been four attitudes towards violence and war and four resulting practices of them within Christianity: non-resistance, Christian pacifism, just war, and preventive war (Holy war, e.g., the Crusades). [1]

  3. Christian pacifism - Wikipedia

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    A Levite reading the Law to the Israelites. The Rambam famously rules that members of the tribe of Levi do not fight in the army. [3]Roots of Christian pacifism can be found in the scriptures of the Old Testament according to Baylor University professor of religion, John A. Wood. [4] Millard C. Lind explains the theology of warfare in ancient Israel as God directing the people of Israel to ...

  4. Seventh-day Adventist interfaith relations - Wikipedia

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    This article describes the relationship between the Seventh-day Adventist Church and other Christian denominations and movements, and other religions.Adventists resist the movement that advocates their full ecumenical integration into other churches because they believe such a transition would force them to renounce their foundational beliefs and endanger the distinctiveness of their religious ...

  5. Christianity and other religions - Wikipedia

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    The official Catholic position is therefore that Jews, Muslims and Christians (including churches outside of Rome's authority) all acknowledge the same God, though Jews and Muslims have not yet received the gospel while other churches are generally considered deviant to a greater or lesser degree.

  6. Christians in the military - Wikipedia

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    The main reason for this was that Christianity was seen as a religion of love and peace; therefore war and killing was seen as being in opposition to a Christian life. However, other aspects of army life, such as arresting Christians and taking part in mandatory pagan practices and sacrifices, would also have been at odds with Christianity. [4]

  7. Sectarian violence among Christians - Wikipedia

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    Sectarian violence among Christians is a recurring phenomenon, in which Christians engage in a form of communal violence known as sectarian violence. This form of violence can frequently be attributed to differences of religious beliefs between sects of Christianity ( sectarianism ).

  8. Christian fascism - Wikipedia

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    Christian fascism is a far-right political ideology that denotes an intersection between fascism and Christianity. It is sometimes referred to as " Christofascism ", a neologism which was coined in 1970 by the liberation theologian Dorothee Sölle .

  9. Criticism of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Bernard—and, once the papacy gave sanction to the idea, the entire Roman Catholic Church—believed that existing Christian methods of serving the Church's ends in war were inadequate, and that a group of dedicated warrior monks could achieve spiritual merit by waging war, rather than despite it.