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| accessdate = 2010-04-10}} Pastor Chuck Baldwin discusses his claim that the US government is "preparing for war with the public".

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However, the Biblical Jesus "consistently opposed violence".

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Wills, Garry, "What Jesus Meant" (2007) p.53, Penguin, ISBN-10 014303880X

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During the first three centuries of the Christian Era, the teachings of the early Church ruled out violence as an option, even in self-defense.

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[[Christian_pacifism#Early_Church|Wikipedia: Pacifism in the early Christian Church]]

Discussion of early Christian attitudes towards war and violence.

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Jim Gulliksen, the Executive Officer of the Lenawee Volunteer Michigan Militia, said of the Hutaree: "Their philosophy and ours differ in many ways, so we don't do a whole lot with them. They are too extreme and radical for us. I just kind of got a bad feeling about the group and we did not want to associate with them too much. They are a little too paranoid for me."