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Can someone recommend me some books on violence, war, killing, rebellion,... in Christianity (or in Islam, and other metaphysical/religious traditions). Can the meekness of Christianity be reconciled with 'necessary violence'?

>> No.12771785

The Bhagvad Gita desu

>> No.12771997
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>> No.12772060

>>12771781

did the christ himself not say he came to a bring a sword?

>> No.12772335

>>12771781
Buddhist Warfare
Buddhism & Violence

>> No.12772360

>>12771785
This. Just read the whole of Mahabharata because Gita is more of a philosophical treaty desu.

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>>12772060
>Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
>For I have come to turn
>‘A man against his father,
>a daughter against her mother,
>a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
>A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
Please don't take our blessed Lord's words out of context

>> No.12772373

>>12771781
Evola's Metaphysics of War.

>> No.12772390

>>12771997
Does he expand on this in one of his works?

>> No.12772427

>>12772363
What did I just read

>> No.12772468

>>12772427
matthew 10