"I was thinking much of what you said last night," Freda said at breakfast.

"How is it that you, whose religion is as you say a peaceful one, can yet have performed so many deeds of valour and bloodshed ?" "I am fighting for my home, my country, and my religion," Edmund said.
"Christianity does not forbid men to defend themselves; for, did it do so, a band of pagans might ravage all the Christian countries in the world.

I fight not because I love it.

I hate bloodshed, and would rather die than plunder and slay peaceful and unoffending people.

You have been in England and have seen the misery which war has caused there.