A Christian's Attitude Towards Violence

I would never try and persuade a pacifist to change their position, but I'm not a pacifist.

Why? Because I believe in the reality of sin and evil, and if you and I

walk into McDonald's and there's a guy spraying machine gun bullets into kids' bodies,

if you hit him high, I hit him low, and we break his neck, that's not murder.

That's killing motivated by a drive to protect the innocent from being slaughtered. And so when I spoke

at West Point last spring, it was an honor to speak to about 200 cadets over

breakfast, and one of them asked that very question you've asked.

He asked, you know, "I'm being trained to kill people. I'm a follower of