Institutionalized Christianity has been no stranger to unjustified and evil violence. But at the same time, Christianity in itself makes peace not only something good, but something foundational and indeed transcendental. And as far as I can tell it is unique in this regard. This is because of the doctrine of the Trinity. Only in Christianity is reality itself, the source of all being, personal - and not only personal, but persons in communion. On the Christian view and no other is everything that exists an overflowing result of, and in some way a participation in, eternal loving relationship between distinct persons. Other worldviews have personality as an accident, or an illusion, or at best as springing from a lonely monad. Only in Christianity is the One also and equally the Many, and, as George MacDonald says “two at least are needed for oneness.” – onancientpaths