Real Christians live in monasteries or help the poor. They are in this world but not of this world (John 17:14-15). They do good instead of fighting evil. Fighting is the Devil.
Anders Behring Breivik for example is a cultural Christian, and like territorial crusaders in earlier times he used plenty of disgusting violence.
Genuine Christians see the bigger picture, because they realize that life is short and that Earth is a fallen place not intended to last forever. Killing and dying to defend a religion or culture here on this planet is therefore a big mistake.
Christianity can easily become violent when this religion is abused by those who seek earthly power. It's nevertheless a fact that real Christians will in some ways benefit if empires or nation states are Christian and not woke for instance. Europe would not have been partly Christian today had it not been for the evil power of the late Roman Empire and the Catholic Church. These hierarchies were the Devil's platform for cultural Christianity. They used religion to secure primitive tribal cohesion on a large scale when killing and conquering in the name of God. Disgusting. Demonic. But real Christians benefitted nevertheless, in some ways, because if you're Christian you feel less friction on an aesthetic level if living in a Christian culture. This positive side-effect doesn't mean that authentic Christians should support violence. To see this clearly let's illustrate the situation with the help of an example:
If your neighbor is often playing loud music that you dislike, you will be annoyed by this, but you obviously don't want to kill him. However, if your neighbor is killed in a bank robbery, you will benefit from it, since there will be no loud music anymore, but that doesn't mean that you support the killer.
Real Christians never support rightwing cultural Christians who use violence.
Personally I'm so old now - with only about 25 years left on Earth - that it certainly doesn't make sense to use violence in order to protect anything in this nasty fallen place.
The best way to reject evil - or provoke/irritate evil persons if you subconsciously have a primitive need for that - is to do good and always forgive and have mercy.
Fighting evil will always put you on the dark side.
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