“The movie that showed us that nonviolence will in the end overcome violence, as long as you have someone really violent watching your back.” (Comment posted on second link)
Why Christians trust in God.
When you’re in the middle of the violence, you can’t be betting that you’ll overcome. Peabody might have been killed. So might Stoddard. It so happened that they prevailed, but they were making a stand regardless of the outcome. Without that level of commitment by the good guys, evil will prevail.