When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.

Abraham Kuyper

Worldviews are at war whether or not you are dressed for battle. If you are not fighting for what you believe in, what someone else believes in will win the day. When the day comes that your dear beliefs are besieged, battle is your obligation. You cannot love something without seeking to protect it at all costs. Love stands strongly in the gap between the danger and its beloved.

This is the world we live in. To be a pacifist in such a world means you are unwilling to accept the reality around you. Same as that young couple that wanted to prove all people are good and went hitchhiking through the Middle East, they got killed by the Taliban.

To stand down amid such dangers is abandoning yourself and throwing your beliefs into a raging fire – never to recover them.