Glyn,
IIRC, Augustine, Acquainas and Martin Luther all wrote treatises on why Christians are, in fact, allowed to kill if it must be done to protect his community from an unjust aggressor.
Christians could not renounce his faith publically without fear of retribution for the better part of Christianity's history after it became the official faith of the Roman Empire and later European kingdoms. Apostasy is heretical and is therefore subject to the attentions of the inquisition, both papal and secular.
IIRC, Augustine, Acquainas and Martin Luther all wrote treatises on why Christians are, in fact, allowed to kill if it must be done to protect his community from an unjust aggressor.
Christians could not renounce his faith publically without fear of retribution for the better part of Christianity's history after it became the official faith of the Roman Empire and later European kingdoms. Apostasy is heretical and is therefore subject to the attentions of the inquisition, both papal and secular.
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