272 - Brandon Dayton - Green Monk
The Symbolic World
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The Orthodox Tradition of War Violence
In the Orthodox tradition there's a sense in which war violence and combat is inevitable that it's going to happen. And so for example, someone who a warrior that goes out to war when they return from war they're barred from communion for a certain amount of time. They actually have to go to confession and they have to do penance for their combat. It's not like they're saying what you did, you know, they're recognizing the value of the combat but they're also realizing that there's something about it which is due to our circumstance.
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