Boyd on ISIS

In this light, there is no need for Jesus followers to worry about what would happen if “everyone put down their weapons and loved ISIS.” The number of those willing to actually follow Jesus’ teachings and example has, unfortunately, always been relatively small, even among professing Christians. And, as Jacque Ellul so profoundly argued in is book, Violence: Reflections From A Christian Perspective, as long as there are nations and governments, there will be people who are more than willing to engage in violence, for no national government can rule its people and survive outside threats without being willing to engage in violence. - See more at: http://reknew.org/2014/09/how-are-we-to-love-the-soldiers-of-isis/#sthash.qMBvE8Bp.dpuf

i) To begin with, ISIS isn't state-sponsored. It's the other way around. An effort to create an Islamic state: restore and expand the Caliphate. 

ii) Boyd's pacifist appeal to Ellul is quite ironic, considering the fact that Ellul was a member of the French Resistance.