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Adin Ballou war ein US-amerikanischer Prediger und Gründer der christlich-pazifistischen Gemeinschaft Hopedale Community. Ballou war einer der führenden Vertreter des christlichen Pazifismus im 19. Jahrhundert. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. April 1803 – 5. August 1890
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“But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. "Might makes right," and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.”

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Christian Non-Resistance: In All its Important Bearings, Illustrated and Defended (1846).

“Verily there is magic in numbers! The sovereign multitude can out-legislate the Almighty, at least in their own conceit. But how many does it take? Just enough to make a nation. It did not take many thousands to make Texas a nation. Yet Texas, especially after the battle of San Jacinto, was perfectly competent to decree any of these things, and to make slavery, murder, &c. absolutely meritorious. Whether any smaller number could nullify the divine law, we leave to our great metaphysicians to determine.”

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How Many Does It Take

“One man must not kill. If he does it is murder. Two, ten, one hundred men, acting on their own responsibility, must not kill. If they do, it is still murder. But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is no murder. It is just, necessary, commendable and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent.”

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How Many Does It Take

“How many does it take to annul the commandments of God, and render that lawful, which HE has forbidden? How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness?”

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How Many Does It Take

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