Don “plowshares” groups advocate violent civil disobedience?
A. Some “plowshares” groups pour blood on nuclear warheads. This seems like a silly Jewish ritual. Other plowshares groups disarm nuclear weapons so that they cannot kill and main innocent people. They are thus opposed to violence. As for civil disobedience, if all the guards at a Nazi Concentration Camp suddenly fell asleep, would you sneak in and let the prisoners free? Even if there were a sign saying, “No Trespassing — Authorized Personnel Only”? Jesus and Micah agree: the meek will convert instruments of death and lawless authority into tools of productivity and service. By so doing, they will inherit an Edenic earth.
