Pacifism « The Hooded Utilitarian

December 19, 2012
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog
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The Genocide Against the Orcs

Some more comments on Hobbits and violence.

Spider-Dove

With great power comes the responsibility not to hit people.

April 18, 2012
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog
44 comments

Bend Your Knee

Stanley Hauerwas, America, and the Church of War

October 30, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog
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The Long Peace and the Guillotine

We might consider the possibility that there is something morally retarded in believing that we are the most morally advanced individuals to ever walk the earth.

April 21, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Article
19 comments

When I first thought to write about The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight In It, a 2000 PBS documentary recently released on DVD, the U.S. was only involved in two wars. In the time between pitching the idea and receiving the documentary, the U.S. picked up a third.

September 9, 2010
By Noah Berlatsky
Article, Blog
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The Amish Plot Against the Superheroes

I’ve been reading The War of the Lamb, the last book written by John Howard Yoder. Yoder was the most important theologian of pacifism in the last century or so, I think. Appropriately enough for a pacifist theologian, he was a Mennonite. And, of course, the subject of Mennonite’s made me think again (mostly to [...]