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II your Lord teaches in the Gospels that you must not return evil for evil, and you should not refuse even to those who want to take away your cloak his habit, then you should not Christians take up arms and fight your enemies,
Blessed Francis replied:
"It seems to me that you did not read the whole Gospel.'s forgiveness which Christ speaks pardon is not a neutral blind, unconditional, but deserved a pardon.
For Jesus said, "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample and, turning, there sbranino." Indeed the Lord wanted to say that mercy should be provided at all, even those who do not deserve it, but at least be able to understand and make the fruit, not those who are willing to err with the same tenacity and conviction than before.
Elsewhere, moreover, it is said: "If your eye causes you to sin, and cast away from you." And with that, Jesus wanted to teach us that even if there was a man friend or relative, or even be dear to us as the apple of the eye, we should be willing to walk away, to eradicate it from us, if it were trying to turn away from faith and love of our God
For this reason, the Christians act according to justice when maximum fight you, because you have invaded and conquered Christian lands of Jerusalem, planned to invade the whole of Europe, outraged the Holy Sepulchre, destroy churches, kill all the Christians who came across, blaspheme the name of Christ and you strive to remove religion from her how many men can.
If you would like to know, confession, worship, or maybe just meet the Creator and Redeemer of the world in peace and leave the Christians, then they would love you as if you were. "
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