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The Absurdity of Pacifism


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'18 In his grief, Owyn went into the greatest city of Edel, and reproofed the wicked for seven days, until every servant of Iblees lay dead at his feet, and he collapsed.
    19 The Lord saw the penance of Owyn, which was the death of the unrepentant. 20 And Owyn was made again as the light of his blade, and the great city was destroyed.'

 

There has been a tendency in recent times towards a lukewarm theology, one which rejects zeal and justice entirely in favour of passivity and pity. This is a reactionary ideology: those horrified, or even just embarrassed, by the wrongful executions of the innocent or repentant would now have us believe that the job of a Canonist is to simply spectate evil and pray. But to allow evil is to do evil, and to let the faithless and iniquitous spread their errors is to aid them in their waylaying of souls.

 

Beneath all the smells and bells, all the sacraments and prayers, the arguments and spilled ink, the Church has one, and only one, very simple goal: the salvation of souls. Therefore it is unacceptable to any faithful Canonist to allow error and sin to fester, to give it a chance to grow and spread. It must be dug out at its roots before this is allowed to happen. There is no space for an apostate to be let preach, or for a degenerate to be let scandalise, for their example is one that will be followed.

 

The error that many make now is based on a misuse of choice extracts from Scripture. The lukewarm pacifist will tell you that Ex. Owyn was punished by God for the sin of killing Harren the Kinslayer. But what the pacifist will not tell you is that Harren repented, kneeling before Owyn once he saw God’s work being done through him. Owyn only sinned when he refused to accept Harren’s repentance and struck him down anyway. And what the pacifist will also refuse to mention, and this is key, is how Owyn atoned for his own sin.

 

For it says in Gospel that after Owyn murdered his uncle, he wandered into the North in search of Joren. Here he saw the ruin that had been brought upon the Kingdom of Edel after Joren’s exile. There was not one scrap of faith left in the Highlander Kingdom. They had abandoned God and His Virtue, embracing the pagan faiths and decadent practices of their Harrenite lords. When Owyn saw this, and saw that they would not repent, he slaughtered them. 

 

For seven days Owyn brought the sword to the wicked, cutting them down where they stood and sending them to be judged by their Maker. And this was no sin. Rather, the Lord God saw this as penance for Owyn’s kinslaying, and after Owyn finally collapsed from exhaustion and his wounds, God made him again as a great light and obliterated the great city of Edel, Hanseh, and all the servants of Iblees who lived within leagues on all sides of it. And Owyn rose to join his fathers in the Skies. Not only was God satisfied with Owyn’s actions, but He even finished the job for him.

 

Therefore, for one to claim that it is wrong to kill the unrepentant, calls not only Owyn a sinner, but the Creator Himself too. This is obviously blasphemy. To conform to God’s will and the example of the Exalted, all Canonists are not only permitted, but even required, to take up the sword against the wicked and see them slaughtered before their errors should spread.


For there can be no peace where there is no justice.
 

- Jurgen Barclay

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The contents of the proclamation would linger in the heart and mind of a troubled squire, pondering the war that was to come.

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Jordan Cardinal Jorenus paused from his writing in the small room of his burrow, and, having acquired a copy of the document, read it. But this mere proclamation in support of the demise of the unrepentant did naught to soften the Patriarch to the horrors of murder, for he had seen the wrongful deaths in Savoy those many years ago. He had seen one who repented, who sought Godan, set to flame, and burnt to naught but ashes. He had seen how such thoughts tainted those of virtue, how such had brought them to sin, for the men of today are not Owyn, they are not the Prophets, they are but men. Men who are fallible, who require pacifism to enact their faith.

So too did he see the reason in such words, however disagreeable it seemed. Perhaps there was once a time for the deaths of the unrepentant, perhaps there shall be once more, but such a time is not today, he thought, for we are fallible as Owyn was, but in ways different to him. He had been overcome by vengeance; by rage, but we are overcome by pride. Pride to think ourselves worthy of judging those repentant and those not, pride to think that we, who so often fail in our diligence, are worthy to cut down those we fail to guide to repentance. Only when we are born anew, when our sins are few and our judgement pure, can we condemn others.

This, he thought, is the plight of man. We seek to judge and yet we cannot, for our minds are as tainted as those of heathens and heretics. We attempt to enact just violence, and yet we fail in that, for we are now led by the Church, which was only in its infancy in the days of Owyn. And thus, we find faithful in all place, whether they be known or not, whether they be heathen or Canonist, for the Virtuous pagan and the sinful Canonist are both flawed, and are both faithful. It is no longer the job of the man to judge, but the job of the man to lead.

With such rambling thoughts concluded, the Cardinal decided that it was time for a break - perhaps he would patch some of those pesky holes in his robes, with the dastardly moths of the countryside eating it up.

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"Hmm" a newly-converted, slightly over-zealous Kha huffs out "So that means GOD wants me to kill the nasty elf that called GOD a cuck?" he asks to himself

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