Chapter 3- The Myths of Absolution and Purity.

In the Christian New Testament, Jesus many times advocates violence, and seldom (if ever) puts it into a context of self-defense… some examples are:

‘Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? I have not come to bring peace but a sword’ (Matthew 10:34

and ‘I came to bring fire to the earth and how I wish it were already kindled...