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“God is not a pacifist”

22-09-2022

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Jonathan Steinert, PRO

“God is not a pacifist”

Painting of Saint Mary with a grenade on an apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo EPA, Oleg Petrasyuk

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Fabian Neumann is a Christian and works as a reserve officer in the German army, the Bundeswehr. Why does he work in a place where he would have to kill in case of an emergency? And how can he reconcile that with his faith?

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