Troublesome pacifists
I spoke in Meeting yesterday for the first time in a long while. I don't remember precisely what I said, but the gist of it, two long-past conversations, seems worth sharing.
When I was in high school, a friend of mine - perhaps he'd seen Spartacus recently? - objected that Christ's crimes seemed awfully weak for a full-scale crucifixion. He hadn't preached armed insurrection, or any of the kinds of things Romans typically worried about.
A few years ago, at a conference lunch, I'd mentioned this blog, and the conversation after went something like:
Are you Quaker?
Yes.
Aren't they pacifists?
Well, mostly...
So if they're pacifists, why do they cause so much trouble?
I didn't have a proper answer for him, but maybe the conversation helped. It was kind of the opposite of the earlier conversation, but at the same time not exactly.