Our Founders thought it legal to rebel against the King of England to avoid an ungodly man. They shot and killed many and lost no sleep over it. I assure you they knew more about the Scriptures than most of us on FR put together. Self defense is very different than murder. If we were all conscientious objectors, we would have been wiped out eons ago. The Romans and the Muslims tried hard to kill us all.
If this church allowed this to happen, there would be multiple robberies the rest of the year until someone finally fixed the problem.
I think you’re trying to shout down your own conscience.
You’re indulging in the fallacy of the excluded middle, which says that they’d just wave the robber back out.
And how do YOU know the founders didn’t agonize under the moral weight of what they had done? Do you see that assertion backed up by history, or are you arguing from the silence of your ignorance?
The new America also sometimes did worse things to itself than that King George would have done. Slavery wouldn’t have even been a question, for one thing. Would being free of slavery have been worth being part of England’s empire for a longer time?
God granted America’s freedom, but not without a stiff smack on the face to go with it.