Here’s an interesting quote from Richard Rohr I picked up this morning:

‘The warrior archetype is not going away. Our job is to educate and redefine the
warrior int he way that Moses, David, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Dorothy Day lived out
their passion. Warrior energy is not in its essence wrong. It takes warrior energy to see
through and stand against mass illusions of our time, _and_ be willing to pay the price of
disobedience. It takes warrior energy to see through the soft rhetoric of "support
our troops" which cleverly diverts us from the objective evil of war. It takes
warrior energy to march to a different drum, disbelieve the patriotic trivia, and
rebelieve in the tradition of non-violence, civil resistance, and martyrdom.

‘Young men and women who take oaths of secular governments are not martyrs in any
classic sense; rather they are soldiers offering to kill for Caesar. We Christians are
taught a very different way: the way of the cross.’

(Richard Rohr, ‘For the Victory of Love’, Praying, No. 43, July-August 1991, pp.
11-12).