Definitions

1. Christian anarchists are pacifists, and oppose the use of both proactive (offensive) and reactive (defensive) physical force.
2. Many Christian anarchists are vegetarian or vegan.

Statist Aggression

1. Some Christian anarchists oppose war and other statist aggression through tax resistance, while others submit to taxation.

Form Experimental Communities

1. Christian anarchists tend to form experimental communities (such as the Catholic Worker).

Christian Anarchists Themselves

1. This does not mean that they were all Christian anarchists themselves (see Category:Christian anarchists). (Web site)

State

1. Christian anarchists emphasise non-violence and oppose the state as God is the only legitimate source of authority.
2. Christian anarchists do not believe that the state guarantees freedom, order and security.

Reason

1. Some Christian anarchists, however, reason that since fiat currency is coined and printed by the state, it belongs to the state.

Churches

1. Christian anarchists believe that there is no higher authority than God, and oppose earthly authority such as government and established churches.

Christianity

1. And so for Christian anarchists, Christianity never recovered from this compromise with political power.

Power

1. Christian anarchists feel that earthly authority such as government or the Christian Church do not, and should not, have power over them. (Web site)

Violence

1. Besides, for Christian anarchists, it is in fact the state that epitomises the cycle of violence that humanity should evolve away from.

Furthering

1. These must now be analysed to show why Christian anarchists consider them not as contradicting but as actually furthering their own understanding.

State Capitalism

1. Christian anarchists oppose profiting from economic transactions and state capitalism. (Web site)

Jesus

1. Christian anarchists also believe that Jesus himself is an anarchist. (Web site)

Spiritually

1. Christian anarchists believe that freedom is justified spiritually through the teachings of Jesus.

Church

1. Christian anarchists therefore feel that earthly authority such as government, or indeed the established church do not and should not have power over them. (Web site)

Christian Communities

1. Early Christian communities have been described by Christian anarchists and some historians as having anarcho-communist characteristics. (Web site)

Tolstoy

1. Most Christian anarchists, such as Tolstoy and Hennacy, are vegetarian or vegan.

Complete Text

1. Many Christian anarchists hold a higher critical view of the Bible and therefore do not feel obliged to follow the complete text as law. (Web site)

Pacifists

1. Christian anarchists are pacifists and oppose the use of all physical force, both proactive and reactive.
2. Christian anarchists appear far more likely to be pacifists than either secular anarchists or non-anarchist Christians.
3. Pacifists, such as Christian anarchists, perceive any incarnation of violence as self-perpetuating. (Web site)

Anarchy

1. Christian anarchists have no opinion as to whether secular society would be better off with anarchy than it is with all its present hierarchies. (Web site)

Ammon Hennacy

1. Christian anarchists, such as Ammon Hennacy, often follow a simple lifestyle.

Christian Anarchists

1. Many Christian anarchists, such as Tolstoy and Hennacy, even extend this belief to include animals through vegetarianism or veganism. (Web site)
2. Christian anarchists feel that government and sometimes established churches do not, and should not, have power over them or other people.
3. Many Christian anarchists, such as Ammon Hennacy, are pacifists opposing the use of both proactive (offensive) and reactive (defensive) physical force.

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