Civil-Disobedience is what cowards DO...
INSTEAD OF REVOLUTION..
there’s nothing cowardly about facing the possibility of ending up in brutal prisons
>>Civil-Disobedience is what cowards DO...
>>INSTEAD OF REVOLUTION..
And how many enemies of freedom have you shot today?
But I do agree that overly-polite civil disobedience is useless. We need to protest in a way that someone has to at least clean up after us.
You first.
If you want a revolution, you can't start with Molotov cocktails. Civil disobedience builds widespread support, which we need. It puts on a show of ordinary, dignified, peaceful people putting themselves in the way of a violent, unreasonable State. Onlookers view it from the outside, seeing civilized folks like themselves treated roughly.
At the early stages, attacks by revolutionaries with guns make the not-fully-committed alarmed. They don't yet understand the violent folks' aims. They don't yet trust them, because in all fairness, who knows where folks with guns will go next, if you don't know them in their more . . . linear moments?
Human nature is the reason changes only happen in stages.
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Our opponents will have no respect for ‘civil’ anything.
I disagree with that.
I would say that civil disobedience on a wide scale may lead to revolution and does in history.
That revolution can be violent, nonviolent or a mix...
I defer to the expert on this...the name that comes to mind is Gandhi.
Well both are very important and civil disobedience is REVOLUTIONARY!
Why do you call civil disobedience something for cowards?
Peace must be sought first.
Then, if peaceful means fail....
Jesus would say to you:” Put away your sword.” Paul didn’t pick up a sword to fight the decadence of Rome...instead he laid his neck on the block. Since this article is about a Chriatian response I suppose we should look to those who lived in similar times and faced similar circumstances. They obeyed God and gave their lives for it. True fear is not being willing to peaceably give up your life for your Lord but instead allowing your flesh to fight the battle.
Not everyone can be in the infantry, FRiend. People must consider their own circumstances, and should be supported in whatever acts of resistance to tyranny they can muster. Not attacked and denounced as cowards.
I am a grandmother, for instance. Did you mean to call me a coward?
MLK , Gandhi, Lech Walesa,what weapons did they wield?
JPII and Ronald Reagan brought down the Berlin Wall.
It’s not an either/or proposition. Even in the midst of a a shooting war, civil disobedience or sabotage has its place. Was Oskar Schindler a coward?
The Son of God was the greatest revolutionary ever. Judas wanted Jesus to lead an army, betrayed Him because He didn’t. Yet history unfolded as planned.
As for me, I plan to do as much as I can, and work with others against the real enemy. I won’t be attacking potential allies like young parents who may not be Christian or conservative enough to suit some in this forum.
If it comes to a shooting war in my lifetime, I’ll be doing as much as I can to my last breath. Please don’t call me a coward.
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Not so. In the colonies before the revolution, as Britain increased the level of usurpations/abuses, the colonists increased the level of disobedience. All along they continued their efforts to work through the British parliament. All to no avail, of course, but they did try.
The final abuses mentioned in the Declaration of Independence were regarding the lives of the colonists being unjustly taken by the crown, either through their own soldiers or covertly through schemes with the AmerIndians.
When unjust deaths/murders started, the revolution started.
Finally, SamuraiScot is correct that the period of civil disobedience builds popular support as they see the injustice of the attacks by the government on its own people.
Divorce and declaration of indepencdence, with seceding autonomous states would be a start, which would be in fact a return to what America should have been about.
Will they fight Civil War for the gays and disobeying the gays? I do not think so, but too many wusses have made divorce illegal under Federal Ayatollah shariah as expressed through gay marriage.