Devout Christian, John Brown: Traitor, Terrorist, Murderer

Devout Calvinist, John Brown, had a compulsion to punish wrong. 

"Death for death."

Brown’s father – an abolitionist – was a pacifist. 

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=144390035&m=144394568

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)