17. The Christian Ghetto: The Knightly Orders

I am joined today by

John Slaughter

and

Charles Haywood

to talk about the whole subject of Christians and their relationship to violence. As our world becomes more tumultuous and unstable, it seems like this issue is pressing upon us more and more. Its a complex subject that makes many of us uncomfortable. That is probably a good thing. But we live in a world of sin and evil. Violence is an ever present reality. When Europe was dominated by Christianity, violence did not disappear. Christians found a way, however imperfectly it was instantiated in practice, to think about violence and contain and restrain it within and under their faith. We talk about this and more.

Here is a link to

John Slaughter

’s very fine article on the subject if you have not already read it: https://substack.com/@texasjohnslaughter/p-148930806