Tarsonis wrote:Nihon no Tengoku wrote:That's an admirable stance but it's still not a Biblically supported approach, which specifically goes back to the initial question: what would Jesus' ideology be?
For what it's worth, I doubt anybody is going to hell for standing against tyranny. Strictly speaking, we should all be burning in hell-fire for much less.
I wouldn't be so sure there. The Bible presents a very nuanced perspective on the use of force, the right to resist an oppressor, and protecting others.
I would imagine that facilitating civil war and possible social collapse to oppose a dictator is not exactly Biblical. Which is the scenario that Trollzyn has presented. While having "peaceful protestors moved down by jackbooted thugs" sounds fairly bad, this also was the sort of thing that did happen quite a bit in the days of the early church.