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YouTube Videos

May 21, 2020 thoughtsofwarorg

I started creating content for YouTube. The link to the channel is on the bottom of the web page. Looking forward to the day the channel has 100 subscribers, so it can be accessed by a custom url.

Is Nonviolence Practical?

Case for Nonviolence

August 28, 2017August 30, 2017 thoughtsofwarorg

One objection to nonviolence is that it is not practical. If you do not take a stand with a gun, you will be ran over by someone who does. However, Erica Chenoweth found that nonviolent resistance was twice as effective over violent resistance in the past century. Here is a link to her book and TED Talk.

http://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw/

Emmanuel Charles McCarthy

McCarthy and MLK Link

August 25, 2017August 30, 2017 thoughtsofwarorgLeave a comment

I came across the teachings of Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy a few days back. It was interesting to me that Martin Luther King Jr. was the person who opened his mind to nonviolence. Check it out around the 6 minute mark in the video below. Like many testimonies of those who come to believe in nonviolence, it was not learned in the church or the seminaries. The conviction came after reading the scriptures and looking into the first three centuries of Christian history.