weapons of the spirit

There seems to be a discussion about some guys trying to subdue a homeless man who was threatening people. A lot of people who didn't give a f//// about his welfare, and the city institutions that should have mandated jailing or treatment of the guy but didn't, are the loudest ones condemning this action.

One wonders how many of them are aware of the danger of using restraints, both physical or humans to restrain a violent person? Those who never worked with the mentally ill have no idea of how violent these people can be.

.It's sort of like a pacifist who I once had an email discussion with: Who said he would never violently harm anyone, even if he was being threatened. Fine, I said: But what if they were attacking your wife or daughter?

the terrible attacks against non violent missionaries when I worked in Africa was one reason that I stopped being a pacifist. 

there is a time of war, and a time of peace.

Yet there is an argument that using weapons of the spirit can overcome such evil because it could turn the heart of those attacking you. The problem of course is that this only works for those who have a spiritual grounding in prayer and tradgedy.

One film that I had in the USA, but didn't bring here with me (VHS different here), was Pierre Sauvage's film Weapons of the Spirit.

Alas even though this is PBS I cannot find it on line: maybe because it is being renastered for re release this year.

a short clip can be watched on Vimeo, and this is a 2 minute preview:

Although I can't find the video on line, the transcript can be found on Internet archives.

The point was the there were many individuals who risked their lives hiding the Jews, but that here it was an entire town who kept the secret, and even the Germans who were posted there to recover from wounds etc. knew what was going on but "saw nothing"...

What brought this us was a short clip from the latest Jodan Peterson discussion on the Exodus, where they discussed the dilemma of the midwives (Egyptian? Jewish?) who allowed the boys to live even though the law was to kill all male children.