then it just makes sense that Christians should be open to resorting to violence to fix their problems—notwithstanding Jesus’s and Paul’s strong and clear teachings to the contrary. Even a cursory survey of church history will make it clear that this is not speculation. It surely is not a coincidence that soon after the “myth of redemptive violence” was introduced into the church’s thinking about the atonement in the 11th century, there were five centuries of almost nonstop, church-sanctioned, violence.