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Christian views on forgiveness - AGAINST
“an eye for an eye” (Exodus)
“if a man injures his neighbour, just as he has done, so it shall be done to him” (Leviticus)
Christian views on forgiveness - FOR
“do not try to get even, let God take revenge” (Romans)
“if you forgive men who sin against you, your heavenly father will also forgive you” (Matthew)
Christian views on peace - FOR
“do everything possible to live at peace with everyone” (Romans 12:18)
Christian views on reconciliation - FOR
“do not take revenge on some who wrongs you. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, let him slap your left cheek too” (Matthew 5:39)
Islamic views on peace - FOR
“and if they incline to peace, then incline to it” (Qur’an 8:61)
Islamic views on forgiveness - FOR
“but if you pardon and overlook and forgive - then indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful” (Qur’an 64:14)
Christian views on violent protest and terrorism - AGAINST
“Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13)
“blessed are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9)
“He will judge between nations and will settle disputes for many people” (Isaiah 2:4)
“love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44)
Christian views on violent protest and terrorism - FOR
Christians are told by St Paul to “obey the orders of their government” (Roman 13)
“defend the weak and fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed” (Psalm 82)
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13)
Islam views on violence and terrorism - AGAINST
“do not kill each other, for God is merciful to you. If any of you does these things […] we shall make him suffer Fire” (Qur’an 4:29-30)
“do not take life which God has made sacred” (Qur’an 17:33)
the word ‘Islam’ comes from ‘Salaam’ which means ‘peace’ in Arabic
one of Allah’s 99 names is ‘As-salaam’ which means ‘source of peace’
“hate your enemy mildly; for he may become your friend one day” (Hadith)
Islam views on violence - FOR
“fight for the sake of God those that fight against you. But do not attack them first” (Qur’an 2:190)
“to those against whom war is made, permission is given (to fight)” (Qur’an 22:39)
Christian views on reasons for war - AGAINST
“do not repay evil for evil […] do not take revenge” (Romans 12:17-19)
“for the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith” (1 Timothy 6:10)
Christian views on nuclear war and WMDs - AGAINST
“faith groups in the UK are united in their conviction that any use of nuclear weapons would violate the sanctity of life” (Steve Hucklesby, policy adviser for the Methodist Church)
Christian views on nuclear war and WMDs - FOR
“life for a life, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” (Exodus 21:23-24)
Christian views on just war - FOR
Pope Benedict XVI said that Christians “shouldn’t ignore an evil aggressor”
Christian views on holy war - AGAINST
“put your sword back in its place […] for all who draw the sword will die by the sword” (Matthew 26:52)
Christian views on pacifism
“blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God” (Matthew 5:9)
Christian views on religious responses to victims of war
“love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44)
weapons of mass destruction - 12 marker - AGAINST
“love thy neighbour”
“thou shalt not kill” (Exodus)
“we had seen a clear city two minutes before, we could no longer see the city” - Captain Robert Lewis, the co-pilot
“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” - J. Robert Oppenheimer
Islam views on WMDs - AGAINST
“fight in God’s cause against those who fight you, but do not overstep the limits: God does not love those who overstep the limits” - Qur’an 2:190
“do not contribute to your destruction with your own hands” - Qur’an
Christian views on war - FOR
“love your neighbour as you love yourself” (Matthew 22:39)
“he made a whip out of cords […] he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables” (John 2:15)
“a time for war, and a time for peace” - Ecclesiastes 3:8
Christian views on war - AGAINST
that of God in everyone”
“mankind was made in His image” (Genesis)
"Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms" - 1 Peter 4:10
Christian views on Holy War - FOR
to rescue Christians from “the servitude of infidels” - Francis Bacon
“when the Lord God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally” - Deuteronomy 7:2
“put on full armour of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes” - Ephesians 6:11
“he is God’s servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer” - Romans 13:4
Christian views on Holy War - AGAINST
“you shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgement” - Matthew 26:52
“all who take the sword will perish by the sword” - Matthew 26:52
“blessed are the peacemakers” - Matthew 5:9
“love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” - Matthew 5:44
pacifism - FOR
“there are many causes I would die. There is not a single cause I would kill for” - Mahtma Gandhi
“if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also” - Matthew 5:39
“Paradise if for […] those who curb their anger and forgive their fellow men” - Qur’an, Surrah 3:134
Christians views on helping victims of war - FOR
“love thy neighbour as thyself” - Mark 12:31
Parable of the Good Samaritan
Islam views on helping victims of war - FOR
“whoever saved a life, it would as if they saved the life of all mankind” - Qur’an 5:32
“he is not a believer who eats his fill while his brother goes hungry by his side” - Hadith
