Christian pacifism isn’t popular anymore. But perhaps it should be

Jesus is the prince of peace, yet his followers often struggle to fully embrace pacifism. Michael Coren explores 

Has there ever been a less appropriate time to write about the relevance of Christian pacifism?

The horrors of Israel and Gaza, the Russian onslaught in Ukraine, more than a dozen other significant military conflicts, and numerous smaller clashes. War has always been with us of course, but we’ve never had the ability to inflict such slaughter so rapidly and easily. The reality is obscene, the potential even worse.

Therein lies the paradox of the issue. Wars keep occurring not because they are successful but the very opposite. Perhaps the most misplaced statement in the annals of armed conflict is that coined by HG Wells to describe the first world war. “The war that will end war.” Of course, even if wars succeeded in bringing peace and prosperity there would still be a moral argument against them. But they simply don’t.