I have a friend who is an orthodox Christian. Vlad the Impaler got brought up and he said that what he did was "not very Christian behavior."
This is why I'm not big on religion, particularly Christianity in this particular instance. There is so much pussying around. I love Jesus but I really don't think the way is letting your enemies trample over you and just hoping that somehow truth and light will overcome. Sometimes you need to be the villain in someone else's story. Sometimes people deserve a taste of their own medicine.
You should try to give people the peaceful opportunity to see the light and to accept God's grace. To love all that is beautiful and fight against whatever is evil. If they turn it away, if they want to impose their rule on you by force, you simply cannot let them. Extending a hand is all well and good until it is chopped off, because if you can no longer extend your hand then you are useless.
@joey because i believe in fighting for what you value.
Killing tens of thousands of civilians to cow the soldiers into defeat is good, actually, when the alternative is allowing them to come and kill you.
Ultimately, like all other major institutions, Christian churches have obviously been subverted, not to mention that most self-styled Christians are more influenced by cancerous Judeo-Marxist left-liberalism than by Christian morality anyway (most White "Christians" in the West seem more offended by "racism" than blasphemy for example). So I don't necessarily think Christianity should be judged by the practices of modern WEIRD Christians, even if some of what they advocate seemingly lines up with what Jesus taught.
There is a reason why I wear a Templar's cross, after all.