Thou shalt not kill

We talk about Nonviolence in Russian

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…
 
Matthew 5:44

Dear Readers,

This magazine is about our common crime against God, life and love, which immediately devalues all our good deeds and worthy endeavors. Namely, it is about legalized opposition to evil by violence: murders and mutilations of people for the reasons of protection of own life, the motherland and those, who are close.

Each of us morally and materially supports the existence of army, police and other power structures, the work of whom is called to “protect” and to “prevent”, but, practically, carries out threats of murders, and direct harm and deaths of people.

But what could be more important in this life than learning not to harm or kill others?

 

How to stop to be in need and how to stop taking part in murders and mutilations of people

Below you will find 11 materials concerning the practices of non-violence – from the prevention of your own aggression and indifference to the renunciation of a citizenship involved with the unwilling participation in crimes again human life. Scroll and use the tags to navigate the page.

 

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Peace Initiatives Guide

March 7, 2021
In nonviolence
1 Min read

Find yourself a truly peaceful cause. Involve yourself in initiatives that prevent crimes against people’s lives. Invest your resources into real programmes, products and services aimed at stopping legal violence, maiming and murder. Under “legal violence…” here and further on refers to the training and usage of security forces (the army, police, special services, justice system etc.), whose...

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“Not in my name”. Free unconditional renunciation of citizenship by birth

December 21, 2019
In nonviolence
6 Min read

The first sign of any state’s respect of freedom of conscience and religion is the ability to freely renounce the citizenship that you were assigned at birth. The reasoning for such a decision may be the desire to cease participation in crimes of the state and society of which one, as a citizen, is a part (“Not in my name”). In some countries this involves a lengthy procedure with many impossible...

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Civil Peace Tax. Our right to stop financing the murders

April 25, 2019
In nonviolence
7 Min read

What can we oppose to the law, that turns people into murderers? Literally, without any exaggeration… Perhaps, the best choice would be the the law of humility and love: “Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved”. But, studying humility, there is no way to put up with killings and mutilation of people. It is just impossible.   It is the time to share...

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Abdusalam A. Guseynov: Non-violence isn’t about the world, it’s about the individual

March 5, 2018
In nonviolence
10 Min read

Non-violence can only be properly understood if we view it as a post-violence stage. If we look to the stages of a person’s spiritual elevation, then we can build the following sequence: obedience, reciprocal violence and non-violence. That is, from obedience a person comes to the stage of reciprocal violence, demonstrating their willingness to take up arms. Only once he has overcome this stage...

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Costa Rica: 70 years with no army

January 13, 2018
In nonviolence
8 Min read

Without attempting for completeness and correctness, I will allow myself to share observations from meeting this country: with the happiest people on Earth (according to Happy Planet Index); with absence of army for already 70 years – not conscription, and not under contract. Recently, the preview of the annual report of OSAC has came to my attention. It presented unfortunate data:...

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Christians and the army. Do you have the right to kill and cripple people?

September 23, 2017
In nonviolence
18 Min read

Is it permissible for a Christian to kill his enemies? What about the enemies of their loved ones and homeland? Is it a sin for a soldier to kill in war? What about crippling someone in a war? What if a police officer kills someone? What if an ordinary citizen does it? Jesus Christ on the protection of life, homeland, and loved ones Let’s figure this out. The saviour of human souls – where and...

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Vitaly Adamenko: the Gospel strictly prohibits violence

March 5, 2017
In nonviolence
9 Min read

Russia, Saint Petersburg, February 2017. Exactly 100 years after the armed uprising of Petrograd soldiers and workers, known as the February revolution which led to the overthrow of the autocracy and the events that followed from this. It’s time to pay attention to another event which is directly opposite in its meaning – the non-reciprocation of evil for evil, the non-resistance of evil with...

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Do not want to kill people. My story

April 6, 2015
In nonviolence
4 Min read

When I first faced this problem, as well as the dominant very loyal attitude to it in the society, I couldn’t help, but asked myself a question. Why do we live, like nothing happened, knowing, that the price of our tranquility is the fear of violence that we evoke in people, and the very violence itself – cruel, bloody, inhuman? Why does not it worry and hurt us? Hi! My name is Alexander, I...

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The village – a personal experience: taxes, safety, the rewards of nonviolence

February 14, 2015
In nonviolence
8 Min read

1. Taxes In the area I now find myself earthquakes are not a rare occurrence. You can hear a rumble underground almost every week, light tremors occur every 3-4 months, and sizable ones are no rarer than once a year. The strongest and longest one that I have experienced was a series of earthquakes lasting two days, with a maximum magnitude of 3.7 on the Richter scale, and the epicentre was only a...

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Modern Tolstoyism

January 7, 2015
In nonviolence
6 Min read

Today’s the 7th January – the day of Christ’s birth. No other day is better for talking about people, like our friends, who have consciously changed their outlook on life towards nonviolence and love. I Nonviolence.ru isn’t about Tolstoyism. But it is undoubtedly indebted to the famous writer’s talent and courage. At the beginning of the 20th Century Tolstoy had many followers who were inspired...

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Non-Violence – Where to begin

October 17, 2014
In nonviolence
13 Min read

1. Away with Aggression 2. Away with Bitterness 3. Final Destination Where to begin? First of all, calm down. If today you don’t find yourself a place away from the awareness of universal fratricide and your own role in it, then believe me it won’t be long and you’ll need serious stimuli in order to maintain this feeling and continue down the path of non-violence. We can talk about this another...

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