1. Jesus as we find him in the gospels has no interest whatsoever in the violent situations that so plainly fascinate you. In the apocalyptic worldview that the historical Jesus and the writers of the NT shared, warfare and military activity of any kind belong to the world of sin and death, ruled over by this world's "prince"; and the gospel message, the heart of the new-born church, was that this world was now transcended. There is nowhere in the NT any expectation that the followers of Jesus should take up weapons and imitate the example of Barabbas and his ilk, sectarians of the so-called Fourth Philosophy. If it were ever your interest to find in either the historical Jesus or the multiform literary character of the same name in the NT some sort of divine authority favoring militarism and military activities, of any kind, you do so in vain.

2. You failed to notice that I do recognize that a choice of nonviolence for oneself does not remove the duty . . . [more to come]