Just War or Genocide.

Introduction:
People are speculating whether or not Russia's war on the territory known as Ukraine is a just war.  Considering the fact the Russia is fighting the exact same Judeo-Luciferian Globalist powers that are presently conducting a genocide against the American and European people, via FAKE medical science and other weapons, it is really a moot point.  The popular doctrine goes that for the War to be just it has to be a "last resort."  What does it take to be the last resort when our own government have unleashed biological weapons against us? And obviously intended to do the same to Russia.

So stepping back and taking a 64 thousand foot view of the idea of violence vs force, conquest vs just war . . .

Famed Orthodox writer and monk (some claim saint), Fr. Seraphim Rose painted a dismal picture of life in a Republic, lumping all republican governments into a category of revolutionary wasteland. Many people view Seraphim Rose as a great "seer" and commentator. He was a keen observer, but I see too much fatalism in the body of his work and believe his thinking was colored by his young years, contaminated by the massive "end time lore" of his day, and without getting into a war with his cult followers (and I mean no disrespect in that description, I know they rightly love and admire him) I cannot help but wonder if some of the Nihilism, Fr. Seraphim accurately saw did not color his own view of the present possibilities. After all, he looked at the tremendous vibrant energy of his age and saw only dust, nothing in it that could be influenced for the good. In fact, he painted all efforts to promote what is True, Good, and Beautiful in a republic as a fatalistic exercise. 

If the apostles and early fathers had taken his tack in observing their day, the Roman Empire would have never become Christian. There was nothing in the Empires of their day that would have encouraged them to think, "Look, this pagan barbarity, with Emperors around the world and their children-sacrificing death cults, who are celebrating the peace of all the gods, and many claiming to be god's themselves, is perfectly conducive to 'Evangelization' and will become Christian and will one day aid the spread of Christianity around the world." 

The paganism, philosophy, and barbarity of THIS Empire is not so different in many ways and considerably different in others, but just as in the Roman Empire, the Christian voices and pagan voices "vied for the ear of the king," the same is true today; however, today many of those pagan voices are now called "Christian." 

No one could seriously argue against the fact that the Ecumenical Religion of Pope Francis (which is inherently NOT Christian) and some other "world Christian leaders" hold more in common with the Pax Deorum of the great pagan Maximus of Ephesus ( c. 310 – 372 AD) than it does with The Early Church Fathers and their Gospel of Jesus Christ; this indeed is a handicap to present day Christian Evangelism. 

Fr Seraphim was right about the Revolutionary Spirit controlling the history of the last three centuries. Still, this spirit is what the so-called Christian Holy Empires produced, each in its own color. May our Republic be Baptized Christian and actually conquered by Christ? It seems as unlikely as the court of Nero, Caligula, or Domitian in their day. However, it did become Christian with Constantine and the struggle of the century to follow him. Was it actually conquered by Christ? or did it take on the "flavor of Christianity," as it were, leavened, modified, and humanized by Christians? I argue for the latter since my answer is not romanticized, and I hold that Christians today, were they to stand in the society, AS they "Work out their salvation with fear and trembling" as Saint Paul said, can have a like influence even on this Republic. If I am wrong, I apologize to Father Seraphim in advance. Still, I see my view as more aligned with the Faith, filled with HOPE, where I see in his conclusions, which were based on some very accurate observations, the which I agree, less aligned with the Faith and favoring "end time fatalism." 

 

"A government must rule by the Grace of God or by the will of the people; it must believe in authority or in the Revolution; on these issues, compromise is possible only in semblance, and only for a time. The Revolution, like the disbelief which has always accompanied it, cannot be stopped halfway; it is a force that, once awakened, will not rest until it ends in a totalitarian Kingdom of this world. The history of the last two centuries has proved nothing if not this. To appease the Revolution and offer it concessions, as Liberals have always done, thereby showing that they have no truth with which to oppose it, is perhaps to postpone, but not to prevent, the attainment of its end. And to oppose the radical Revolution with a Revolution of one's own, whether it be "conservative," "non-violent," or "spiritual," is not merely to reveal ignorance of the full scope and nature of the Revolution of our time, but to concede as well the first principle of that Revolution: that the old truth is no longer true, and a new truth must take its place." 

― Seraphim Rose, Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age 

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Don't mistake what I say here as "situational ethics" or any of the philosophies of modernism. It is instead an attempt to define the proper and moral actions of a Christian in a Republic; it is approaching the reality of both the goals of taking on the qualities of Jesus Christ, living a life imbued with the Holy Spirit for that purpose, and being a warrior for the good, now, in this present society, time and place. 

Orthodox Christian "experts" (clergy and teachers) have a handicap in this area; that of a citizen's responsibilities in a Republic. They quote many things from the Holy Fathers, who lived under governments that were fundamentally different from our situation in a Republic. 

To whatever degree we actually are "self-governed" in a Republic is very much up for debate at the moment, considering the massive powers that are arrayed against the idea and their operations to destroy the foundational institution of republican governance and replace it with technocratic rule administered by a ruling class whose allegiance is to Lucifer, if they have any allegiances at all, except self-serving lust and greed, displayed in a psychotic need to control everything to the detriment of human beings. The Luciferian goals of the Globalist Masters have not been hidden and have been openly stated. The question is, is this illegitimate Luciferian establishment given the status of a Monarch's God-given right to rule? 

BTW, that is what this fellow is saying.

 

It is what the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America is saying as he blesses the Death Cult and praises "president Biden, and it is what the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople is saying. The Russian Orthodox Patriarch is saying something just the opposite. 

If we are to submit to this Globalist Luciferian Evil:

If it is that, then we must submit meekly and await our martyrdom at their hands which is sure to come; and quite a few Orthodox literally cheer this idea and boast that the Church grows on the blood of martyrs. With the release of the Beast of Technology that seems linked by history to the year 1844, just judging by the rate of inventions and technology development before and after that year, something has entered the arena, unknown to the Holy Fathers, and all but the recent Saints. 

One modern saint, confronted with both the expansion of technology, living in a Republic said, (he was active the last half of the 20th century, Reposed in 1996)

What could Saint Paisios possibly mean by "take on and remove an evil in society." Does that sound like pacifism to you? Or does that sound militantly aggressive? 

 

Now the points I want to address are: 

(1) The proper use of force. 

(2) The difference between moral, physical force, VS violence.

(3) The nature of forgiveness.

(4) The Sovereign Administration of Justice. 

People are religiously confused about the doctrines of church and state, religious rights vs. secular rights, militancy vs. forgiveness, especially those born into a Republic where the ordinary citizen is left with the same responsibility to safeguard against evils in society as is given the highest leader. In a Republic, ordinary citizens are given the responsibility to find and select leaders to accomplish the True, the Good, and the Beautiful in the culture, to uphold the nation's moral structure for the safety and enjoyment of all. Further, that responsibility encompasses more than merely selecting proxies to govern but creating the guidance of standards acceptable in the society for the proper governance of all. For instance, Abstract principles of respect for the human person created in God's image, with unalienable rights given by God, the right to all that is appropriately Just, Right, and conducive to Generating health and the general welfare of the population. What those principles are and how the citizens will be governed is always an open debate in a Republic. In this, the silence of Christians is an automatic loss to the Luciferians, who are very willing to "take charge." They are struggling to dictate policy and are doing a damned good job of it.  

The American Republic was born imperfectly and morally confused. I was born in public and open cognitive dissonance. As an example, it was born with the presupposition that people should not be victimized by the British Government acting capriciously without the cooperation or input from the people they governed; the Brits were acting rather like an absentee Landlord who occasionally arrived and took possession of whatever he willed. Yet, those same people aware of their abuse by the Crown, who chanted in protest, "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny," accepted slavery, practiced slavery, and became wealthy by slavery, which is in effect a 100% tax. To them, this was normal, even ordained by God. And if you doubt it, go read the sermons of many of the Protestant preachers of the time. I point this out not to disparage our founding but rather so I won't be accused of romanticizing the Republic's founding. It was imperfect, it cost upwards of seven hundred thousand lives in the civil war to get it right, or at least one aspect of it right, yet these 2.5 centuries later, here we are, have lost the Republic to a dictatorial Judeoo-Luciferian Cabal, what should we do? 

Orthodox purists try to paper over our responsibility as citizens for safeguarding the public good with quotes from saints and Holy Fathers who lived in Monarchies of one sort or another, Monarchies that were pure autocracies as was Czarist Russia, to other less autocratic but still monarchical forms of "divine right to rule" Governments. My friend Jay Dyer has done programs on the proper relationship between Government and Church, little of which can fit into the Republic as it exists here and now. My friend Rex Christi waxed poetic on Liberty's Thunder Radio Show about the need to forgive our attackers AS THEY ARE ATTACKING US, literally as they are pressing the knife into our flesh, guiding it between our ribs, and so on. He is both right and wrong. On the one hand, were a wild animal to attack us, we would not hold especially malice toward the beast acting like a beast once we stopped the attack, once we ended the combat, by discouraging the animal, causing it to lose heart, or injuring the animal so that it regained its proper fear of us, or even killing it, the very next second we would feel no hatred of the beast for being the beast. To ask the beasts forgiveness would be ludicrous. To pray God's mercy upon it would be charity. 

Saint Paul speaking to Christians, in the context of the Christian community, people whose purpose was the building up of their spiritual life in the Body of Christ, calling them to walk worthy of the vocation wherewith they were called, admonishing them to lowliness and meekness, to forbear one another in love, stated that their goal was to try to keep the unity of the Spirit in a bond of peace. There is no unity of Spirit or Bond of Peace in America, among Americans, or in Europe, among Europeans. The New World Order, Judeo-Luciferian masters, using our government's policies and the media they own, continually create false atrocities to create false unity in a bond of hatred and fear; They have invested Billions in creating Russia, Russians, and their President Vladimir Putin as a permanent object which must be hated and feared. Any unity created by this lying method is false unity and a damming lie. 

Saint Paul goes on to describe the Christians he is addressing as a single Body, that Body being Christ Himself. The goal of the spiritual life IN that Body was to grow into the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ by surrendering their childish things, becoming mature so that they could then "withstand" those who would try to trick them with cunning craftiness and deceptions. Then he admonishes them not to continue to walk as the "gentile" did; Meaning as the pagans did, who walk in the vanity of their own minds, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 

Even anachronistically, that is speaking out of time, Saint Paul describes perfectly the constant struggle that is inherent in a Republic made up of Christians and all others. G.K. Chesterton understood that when picking a ground upon which to build a society, the Christian model was the most humane because it best honored the dignity of all persons created in God's image, whether they were knowledgeable of that fact or not. After demonstrating the inhumanity of Hindu, Shinto, Buddhist, and Islamic cultures, he summed this up, saying, "Only Christianity can create a culture where both the Christian and the Pagan may safely play." I think his worldview assessment at the time was very insightful and true. It is still true today and can be true in America, but not without throwing off the diabolical agendas, domestic and foreign, of the Judeo-Luciferian Overlords. They have to go. 

 Saint Paul pictures the separation and warfare that must come and says, "Be ye angry, (plural) and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath." Further, he says quite literally, "you be honest, never give place to the devil," then he describes what it takes to "act" with integrity and against evil, saying that the Holy Spirit was present to aid in this task; then very specifically he said, "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice" then he adjures them to tenderheartedness, kindness, forgiveness, just as they have been forgiven by Christ. 

Paul states elsewhere, "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. (he says something similar elsewhere and ends with zealous of ALL good works.) This is the opposite of the goals and actions of America as a whole, domestically and in our engagements across the globe. We are exporting War, Famine, Debauchery, and Genocide. And we are being destroyed by our own exports. 

Paul speaking further: 

These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee." Titus 2:11 

Meaning, do not be a hypocrite, an actor exposed saying one thing and doing another. 

Nothing about this is passive, nothing about this is frozen, nothing about this is isolated. What does rebuke mean? In all its shades of meaning, it means foremost "to confront." 

Saint John Chrysostom said, "He who is not angry, whereas he has cause to be, sins. For unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices; it fosters negligence and incites not only the wicked but the good to do wrong."

Obviously, Saint John describes a cold, rational, reasonable, purposeful, powerful, dispassionate anger, not a weak passion-filled emotionalism. We know this because he said, "No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger" and "Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts." And we certainly don't want to do that. 

I find this wisdom absent in too many modern Orthodox teachers whose teachings seem to be more Taoist than Apostolic, more pacifist than militant, never grasping the concept that, at times, if you are not angry, you sin—never acknowledging the mandate to "storm the strongholds" as anything other than personal purification. 

Along with Saint Paul saying, "be ye angry and sin not," Saint John Chrysostom said, "the sign of insane anger is a man flailing the air with his fists, long after the conflict has ceased." And in this statement is much wisdom. When we battle, do we fight with a heart filled with love, or do we battle from the base of our own ego, pride, lusts, envy, and greed? It is the pivotal question that must be grasped to understand anything I'm saying. 

I remember an old episode of a T.V. show "Kung Fu" where the star was a Chinese warrior (oddly enough played by the Caucasian David Carradine) who, because of politics, had fled China to the American West and running across a young woman being attacked, was greatly offended and angered by the brutality and barbarity of the act and quickly whipped four saddle tramps, most violently. And when the battle was over, he immediately returned to his usual demeanor, holding no hatred for the men he had beaten and taking pains to see the young woman was safe. That depiction is far more Christian than would be the actions of a Christian pacifist or a Saint willing "only to admonish."

Christianity is NOT pacifist, and Pacifism (a man-made tradition) is NOT Christian. Where, for the faith, a Christian is called to great suffering and personal sacrifice, as demonstrated by Jesus' suffering and his forgiveness of the actual men in uniform who were tasked with humiliating him and killing him, I find the model as did, Saint John Chrysostom who said, "In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law of the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators." 

 

 "In Christian combat," is this an admonition to Pacifism or an admonition to forbearance with our brothers and sisters in the faith and those we are leading to the faith? Those to whom we witness? Certainly it is not the game-plan for battling Lucifer and all his hoards who destroy innocence and murder for recreation. Who did Jesus mean when he said upon the Cross, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." Who the "they" was is explained in the next sentence, "And they parted his raiment, and cast lots." Was Jesus forgiving the Jews, who he would punish with great punishment as the Roman Legions razed the city? When we make grand, sweeping statements about forgiveness, we err. Forgiveness has context. Saint Dismas was saved of his sins and forgiven by Jesus on the Cross, but was the unjust and arrogantly cynical murderer on the other cross? 

My friend seemed to think that he needed to forgive Biden and other Luciferians like Hillary Clinton, John McCain, etc. I would extrapolate and say, why not Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler . . . really, why not Genghis Khan? In this thinking, my friend is partly right and partly wrong. I ran into this first nearly 50 years ago when our Lutheran pastor went to a bigger church, and we were left with guest speakers and finally, a flashy interim Pastor who was batting way below his ambitions and grade, a Harvard graduate who proudly announced that if we could not forgive Adolf Hitler we were not yet truly Christian. And, of course, his definition of forgiveness was all sentimental and filled with psychobabble. Having been friends with Corey Ten Boom, I knew in my gut that my "forgiving Hitler" was a silly and academic exercise, meaningless, except in my own pride. Now for Corey, who had suffered in Ravensbruck Prison Camp, together with her sister who died there, with the Orthodox nun and Saint, Maria of Paris, letting go of her bitterness toward the NAZIS, including Hitler, was a matter of LIFE and DEATH.

Rather than become the sweet solid person with a supple-leathered heart (and by that, I mean very tough, very tender, very strong, very broken), giving all of her life to sharing the power of the LOVE and PEACE she discovered in Christ, in her suffering, she would have become an embittered old hag, whose bitterness would color every moment of her surviving years, every aspect of her vision, of her relations, of her understanding, her soul would have died years before she did, shriveled heart, small, encrusted. Instead, Corey's heart flowed with POWER and love, with the Power of Love. When I was a bitter teen, I found that I could be nothing but kind to Corey, but I hated being around her because she saw through me. She said more than once, "Bucsh" - she could not pronounce Butch with her Dutch accent, it was Bucsh . . . she would say, "Bucsh, everyone thinks you are dangerous, but I see your wounded heart and the hard shell you have created to protect it. One day the shell will break, and your heart will become strong as supple leather, all bitterness will be gone, and you will speak with love, even when you curse . . . " and I can't relate all she said because it is too challenging even now and too personal. Without a forgiving heart in the chest of Corey, I quite possibly could have become permanently encased in my own bitterness. That bitterness wasn't fantasy. We all have bitterness Satan has fed us. The growth of that bitterness is the quickest way to destroy faith, hope, and charity. All it takes is clinging to a reason, to a rationalism, to a justification for bitterness; it starts with first letting the sun set on your anger, hoarding your malice, which turns and destroys your own soul, calcifying your heart, encrusting it in a case of self-satisfied and prideful justifications, making it insensible to the good, and as Saint Paul said, "who walk in the vanity of their own minds, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness." You see, that gentile person Saint Paul is describing is US if we don't do the work of salvation, of baptizing our hearts in the Blood of Jesus' suffering and allowing his love to flow there. 

This has nothing to do with pacifism, a cold and inhumane dogma, or in our pride, forgiving evil men and women of history, even contemporary history, or thinking about theology or philosophy when we are being physically attacked. To everything there is a season and a time and place under heaven. 

A short story: 

I was land speculating a decade ago and had permission to hunt for buyers for a nearly 2000 acre piece of property with a couple of miles of shoreline on a Georgia Power lake in middle Georgia. While learning the property and exploring it, I found myself standing in a clearing surrounded by dense forest and underbrush. The clearing itself was tall grass and tiny saplings; I first heard the sound of saplings snapping and then movement in the tall grass; I pulled my revolver from its holster, leveling my aim at the noise, just in time to see a wild boar bearing down on me, I fired with rhythm, boom, boom until six shots were gone and the animal huffed and collapsed mere feet from me. Every shot hit the hog's sizable head, and it didn't even switch past that last huff. My only thought had been, "Lord, Jesus Christ, Son and Word of God, have mercy on me, a sinner." I didn't feel any anger toward the animal, but I knew that my life was over if I did not stop it. 

 

Lucifer and all his hordes are running at us this very moment with all the brute strength and lust that ole boar held, yet, a thousand times more intelligent and much more deadly, able to kill not just our bodies but our souls IF WE ARE NOT PREPARED. Most of you don't realize the spiritual aspect of this War. They are coming not just for your body but for your soul and the souls of your children and grandchildren. They want to destroy or morph your children into human technoids. Boris Johnson spoke in Luciferian double-speak, speaking of NANO Technology, the technology that can alter your DNA without your knowledge or permission, that the goal was to "Remake the World, wondrously and benignly," which is the most Luciferian of all statements. Are you prepared? You have to be prepared! Only God can fight for us on the molecular/atomic/NANO level. 

Speaking of being prepared: 

Corey told me that in that slave labor camp of Ravensbruck, they could tell within a very few days which women would cater to their sense of being wronged, their personal case of "injustice," be so filled with indignation that they would reject the help of other prisoners, unable to recognize that they were all in the same boat. Filled with bitterness and hopelessness, they would cave in upon themselves, become isolated and soon give up the ghost and die. She said, "On the other hand, just a single sparkle in the eyes and sweetness in their real tears, and they were ready for the battle for survival." My buddy rightly said, "Forgiveness is something that happens IN US," this is what Corey was describing. So, he is right but hear me now, that forgiveness IN US can never be mistaken for or substituted for the Proper Administration of Justice in Society. 

I don't hate George Soros. Instead, with clear eyes, I know him; I want to see his evil power destroyed. I did not hate the ole boar that was bearing down on me in that clearing that day, but rather with clear eyes, I knew him, his hunger, his lust, I knew his intentions, and I had the means to stop him. All is true with Soros, except for the means to stop him; I am left with trying to construct a means in the company of others. Now I use the person Soros as representative of that Luciferian class of people who intend to destroy us all. They hope to destroy anyone not aligned with their Anti-Christ Religion and One World Government, and of course, the dirty secret is the first people they will kill are the ones operating the revolution for them. So, yes, they will destroy their useful idiot first. We have seen many of them "going down" in the last decade. The ideas of malice and hatred and the need for forgiveness do not fit into this context. It is not out of any bitter secrets that I wish to see the Luciferians Stopped by whatever means is necessary, but out of love for all people of goodwill who are their victims; for the unborn, for the innocent children, for the young parents with innocent children, for the SANITY of preferring what is LIFE ENGENDERING to what is DEATH ENGENDERING. The Ole Boar is Bearing Down; the combat is well underway. Do we rise by the Christ within us, or do we withdraw in passivity and pacifism, claim sloth and lethargy are Christian, pave their victory road with our bodies and souls and the bodies and souls of our loved ones. 

When the Lutheran pastor, theologian, and anti-NAZI dissident, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, plotted the failed assassination of Adolf Hitler, both his motives, intentions and actions were MORAL and of good character. Again, there are times when not to be angry is sin. I didn't make that up; I'm repeating the meaning of Saint John Chrysostom's words as he was speaking, like Saint Paisios, as he was speaking about confronting and conquering an Evil in Society; this is the context of Proper Administration of Justice in Society. It is not about personal animus or personal forgiveness. We destroy ourselves when we are not discerning enough to understand the difference between personal animus and personal forgiveness vs. the Proper Administration of Justice in Society. They are not synonymous, though, in many, they become confused. 

On the other hand, there is nothing so common as the masking of demonic hatred in the mannerisms and costume and prejudice of a supposedly righteous cause. In such cases, humans are dehumanized, and their value is reduced to that of an unwanted animal. Did I do that above, where I compared the real-life danger of a charging wild boar with the present assault on us by the Luciferians? No, the comparison was of the threat. And there is a danger in naming the complex of Anti-Christ forces arrayed against us with a name like "Luciferian," even though the name is apt. But to the hater disguised in a "righteous cause," the easy language flows too quickly: Oh!

It's the Jews!

It's the Muslims!

It's the Blacks!

It's the Whites!

It's the Gays!

It's the Lesbians! ad infinitum. 

There certainly is no forgiveness with such people, whose sense of Justice is evil, whose blood-lust is papered over with high sounding but warped words of indignation and self-justification. We have seen this high-flying rhetoric in the mouths of NeoCon and Neo-Liberal American and Israeli Warmongers for two generations, which created Christian Genocide in Syria and Iraq, which sank our country into perpetual war, creating an excuse to destroy Civil Rights under the guise of "National Security" - all the time selling us into the New World Order Judeo-Luciferian Cabal's control. 

In Christian Liberty:

A Christian has not failed to hold a proper forgiving character even when he engages in the proper use of deadly force. It is NOT evil to feel white-hot anger discovering someone molesting your child, and it is NOT evil to act with deadly force to halt a serious crime. Christians are RIGHTLY soldiers, policemen, jailers, etc. There is NO conflict between their service to Justice, which includes the commitment to use deadly force where needed, and their moral character. If there is a conflict here, it is not justice they are serving. Nor is there a conflict between the heart and the hand when a civilian uses reasonable deadly force for personal protection and protection of loved ones, friends, family, and even protection of perfect strangers. 

When Jesus said, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends," he wasn't picturing a warrior without arms and legs, volunteering to be a speed bump on the way to the slaughter of his friends. He spoke of fighting for them without regard to saving one's own life. What was the context of this statement? He was speaking in the community of his closest friends. Friends who would come to hold such great love that they mimicked him in death, laying down their lives, also. These were the same people to whom he said, "But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." The attempt to spiritualize this instruction is simply ideology and not theology. As certainly as to simply spiritualize the word of the Warrior David saying, "Blessed be the LORD my Rock, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight." David took Goliath's sword and beheaded him with it! Try to stuff that into your pacifist pipe and smoke it. And Jesus said that David was "a man after my own heart." He was a warrior and a poet, a man of strength and broken heart, a man blinded by beauty and capable of murder, but also capable of love of Saul, who wished to kill him, who in the end accepted God's will, humbly with a broken heart and a contrite spirit. 

When humans have grown insane with lust, greed, and taking pleasure in sadistic acts, whatever power is used to stop them is MORAL, JUST, and EVEN a KINDNESS to them. To Wit:

I recently related a story of an inmate who had been insane on drugs; he was a serial murderer and rapist and was shot five times in the chest and survived it by God's mercy. He told me that the COP who shot him did him a good deed and had saved his life and his soul. Yes, the officer shot him in exigent circumstances meaning to kill him, and frankly was shocked the felon survived. He later made contact with the inmate, witnessed the saving power of Jesus Christ with him, and told him he regretted the circumstances, the evil that created the deadly situation, but that he was glad he had shot him because he had to be stopped. That set the inmate thinking, and he too came to appreciate being stopped. 

We cannot confuse proper anger with hatred. Or more deadly to the soul, confuse deadly murderous hatred with righteous motivation. For me and many others, this is not academic. It is not an exercise of the mind. At an early age, I had a drunk member of a local "lodge" at 3 AM pull a gun on a friend and me, mistaking us, in his drunken stupor, for burglars at the store where we worked. He came staggering out of his car, gun-waving, cursing us "scumbags." He lost focus for a moment, and I jumped him and disarmed him, breaking three of his fingers in the process and causing a gash on his forehead.

 

Seeing the kinetic action, my friend was screaming at me, not at the man with the gun, "Butch, please don't kill him, just don't kill him." I remember thinking what a silly thing to be saying. I had no intention of harming the man any further than it took to neutralize the threat by securing the weapon. I held no ill will toward the man but was not going to trust my fate or the fate of my friend to a self-righteous, self-deluded, knock-down drunk with a gun. Six months into AA, the man looked me up, showed me his chip, and apologized. Underneath that drunk was an honest man. He said, "Honest, I thought you two were burglars." I said, "Inebriated logic. I knew you were a drunk with a gun aimed at me. Drunk and Hero don't mix." Maybe he thought I was ungracious, but he wasn't finished learning his lesson. No chip and lame apology served JUSTICE. Sometime later, we ran into one another again; I was much bigger than him. He chuckled and said, "If you had been this size, I might have driven on by." Do I resent the evil world that puts a drunk pointing a gun at two hard-working people in the middle of the night? Did I resent his self-righteous drunken speech when he thought he was a hero? Yes. But it taught me a lot about acting under false cause and delusion, a reminder of how deadly it was, and for no reason other than misguided PRIDE. 

Is your battle against the Luciferian hordes really about your own goodwill? Is it really about clinging to what is True, Good, and Beautiful? Is it really about finding those things so that we can create a society of equal Justice under Moral Law, or are you just insulted that someone is trying to steal something from you? Are you itching to get revenge from the NAZI guards, f**k the commandant, and feel the temporary HIGH of shedding blood? From the comments on my Bond Robin Channel, I know that some of the people who listen to me are filled with hatred, they have named their evil, and it is not inside them, and they want blood. Their comments reek of bitterness and entitled violence; their wet dream is to relieve their blood lust under cover of righteous deadly force. You are not fooling anyone. In that case, your governance would be worse than what we have now. At least the present enemy is not pretending to be our friend. 

Now before I introduce the Eastern Orthodox Understanding of a Just War, I want to remind you that the statements of the Church, of the Holy Fathers, of all but a few recent saints, have been made in circumstances that shares very little with the war we are presently fighting, the "Unrestricted War" being waged upon us by our own Deep State, with the Aid of the American and European Luciferian Globalist, which is an Asymmetric War of multi-fronts, one inside our own Church. Just as the Pope of Rome has become a weapon of George Soros and the Globalist, so have some important Patriarchs, Archbishops, and Metropolitans in the Orthodox Church, and our Academic Establishments, most founded as ostensibly Christian, have become centers of Luciferian Power; I give these hints because it would take a book to catalog the multiple fronts of this war. Very little said about War in the past applies to this new form of War in the present, yet the sum of the doctrine still applies. 

Following is the Greek Orthodox Understanding of "Just War," which actually does not exist. But though it has not been spelled out clearly in canon, it exists in the Power of the Holy Spirit, and were it ever to be unleashed, Christ would command, and his Holy Angels would be our rear guard. 

I can save you reading the rest of the article by quoting the only significant paragraph, which goes as follows:

"The Church has always condemned war, but has always been tolerant of the Christian soldiers that served in a military unit. War may be necessary under certain circumstances to protect the innocent and to limit even greater evils." Please understand that what is true on the macro-level of nations in the old days, is also true on a personal level, in this Asymmetric War environment. The Truth, Goodness and Beauty that is required in an individual life, to produce the oases of peace for the benefit of family and community are not to be sacrificed to some abstract Taoist dictum of non-aggression, claimed to be Christian. When we see an evil in Society we DO NOT retreat. Unless we take up these arms, we have already lost.