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Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

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Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
Evil
War
Form
Resist
Worst
Jesus

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