Pacifism is not a bad thing, it is in fact the result of accepting the Saviour. Non-violence has always been the credo of the believer. Jesus said that those who live by the sword will die by it. If one loves his fellow man, he will not try to harm them. Gandhi was a hero who used non-violence to free India. The beatitudes exhorts pacifism and non-violence. If Americans embraced this concept and buried all our assault weapons and the like, we would no longer be subject to mass killings or a great deal of the violence we witness on a daily basis. This insane love of weapons will be the demise of our country. The people of Ammon recognised the evil of wanting to harm others.
TimJuly 7, 2016
An interesting pair of articles. For myself I have not read Hugh Nibley's works, and growing up when and where I did I had little opportunity to do so. From my own reading of the Book of Mormon, uninfluenced by Nibley or any of the other authors referred to, I came to the same conclusions as this author, and for much the same reasons. I have never thought of the Ammonites as pacificists.
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John von KJuly 11, 2016
Pacifism is not a bad thing, it is in fact the result of accepting the Saviour. Non-violence has always been the credo of the believer. Jesus said that those who live by the sword will die by it. If one loves his fellow man, he will not try to harm them. Gandhi was a hero who used non-violence to free India. The beatitudes exhorts pacifism and non-violence. If Americans embraced this concept and buried all our assault weapons and the like, we would no longer be subject to mass killings or a great deal of the violence we witness on a daily basis. This insane love of weapons will be the demise of our country. The people of Ammon recognised the evil of wanting to harm others.
TimJuly 7, 2016
An interesting pair of articles. For myself I have not read Hugh Nibley's works, and growing up when and where I did I had little opportunity to do so. From my own reading of the Book of Mormon, uninfluenced by Nibley or any of the other authors referred to, I came to the same conclusions as this author, and for much the same reasons. I have never thought of the Ammonites as pacificists.
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