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My girlfriend is a member of the Church of the Brethren, though she stopped actively participating a while ago due to certain incidents she still attends whenever she's home to please her family. I was invited to join a service one sunday and, well, lucked out I suppose, because the leader of the American Church of the Brethren was doing a tour and wanted to engange with the young adults after the service.

After he did a mini sermon during that young adult sunday school(which oddly enough, had a completely different idea of God than the pastor preached) he permitted a round of questions. I'd like to ask you the same question I asked him;

Do you believe in necessary evil? i.e. Using evil to stop further evil from being spread?

Hi, thanks for doing this ama.

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Thank you for your response, and the tip about Bonhoeffer. I did not know about him, so it will definitely be an interesting read.

I have to say, I like your answer a lot better than I did his. I asked the question almost two years ago so I can't give you his answer word for word. But it consisted of following Jesus in his footsteps, embodying non violence and rather try to seek the cause of violence and end that with a pacifistic approach, rather than meet it with force. He said that every drop of anger has a source, and thereby a (peaceful, through reason)solution.

I feel your reply is based on real world experience, rather than on what we hope to achieve as a person. Obviously a devout christian tries to emulate Jesus, but in my opinion that's not always possible.

I must insist that there is no right or wrong answer to this. Necessary evil is something that is just the farthest thing removed from Christianity one can imagine, I find it fascinating how different Christians respond to this.

Sorry for asking such a toughy.

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Obviously it's all up to your vision as a blacksmith as well, the key thing for me is really the way the blade is shaped, with relation to its guard.

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