I believe because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANLearn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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