 Wayback Machine This document asked if military force employed to stop uprising violence, whether applied by the government or the church, is the Christian thing to do.Some believed that violence begot more violence, that "those that lived by the sword would die by the sword;"  others believed it was the secular sphere's duty to protect its people and stop new faiths from forming.They made use of the Old Testament as proof for their statements, thus relying on old tradition and papal interpretation.