JANJCI MESOŽDERI? - O KRŠĆANSKOJ VJERI I NASILJU U SUVREMENOM SVIJETU
CARNIVOROUS LAMBS? ABOUT CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND VIOLENCE IN MODERN WORLD

Summary/Abstract: Faced with the question whether Christianity stimulates violence or not, the author first discusses the relationship between violence and the process of civilization (violence remains the essential component of contemporary societies), and then the role of religions in modern society (the continuous relevance of religion causes a variety of usages of religious symbols). Opposing the Gilles Deleuze's interpretation of Jesus Christ in which he is an example of unselfish love, but who is only preparing the path for the terror of the Divine Master (the cosmic terror is done by the vindicator: "Carnivorous lamb"), the author emphasizes that Christ broke the vicious circle of violence absorbing it in himself. This Christ's suffering is an active one bacause he overcame the evil by doing the good. Only God has the right of judgment, so even human non-violence, taught by Christ, is inseparably connected with God's judgment. Practice of non-violence demands faith in God's judgment and such faith is the best proof of the incompatibility of violence with crucified Messiah.

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