ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that Mohandas K. Gandhi has created a potential way out of our current conundrum. It argues that Mohandas K. Gandhi and others have produced cultural innovation by synthesizing elements of these two motifs, addressing the dilemmas that each presents. The chapter shows that Jewish tradition developed a powerful counter-narrative that opposed the violence and promoted a dream of peaceful culture—these themes are presented as counterpoints in the ancient tradition. It evidences for the pacifism of early church is, according to some scholars, overwhelming, although Nigel Biggar's analysis. The chapter examines the warrior motif in some of its major manifestations, beginning with the notion of the G-d as warrior among the ancient Hebrews and the warrior dharma in ancient South Asian culture. A sacred animal whose life is protected under normal conditions must be killed in liminal period of religious rituals.
