I do take a practical approach to my faith, but will have the discernment when to see scripture as spiritually rather than literally.I'm going to keep my reply very short. Jesus was a pacifist because he could have destroyed the Roman Empire if he wanted to:
'But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?”' Matthew 26:52-54
'And it came to pass on a certain night that the angel of the Lord went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses—all dead. ' II Kings 19:35
Let's do some quick math. One legion consisted of about 6000 soldiers, so 12 legions of angels would be at least 72 000. If one angel can kill 185 000 people, that means Jesus could have easily annihilated 13 320 000 000 people if he so wished. That's double the current Earth population.
I think the main different between our worldviews is that you take a very realistic, practical approach to religion; whereas I attribute a lot to spirituality and the metaphysical world. I believe that God could have revealed the Gospel of Christ at any time, at any place on the Earth, no matter how isolated it may have been. And indeed that is what is happening now.
A good example are the verses in the Olivet discourse concerning Christ Returning on clouds of great power. This is not to be interpreted literally but instead symbolically where heaven denotes loftiness. The clouds refer to traditions and the ways of men that obscure our vision from seeing the truth. An example are the false expectations the Jews had in recognising their Messiah such as being One like King David who would defeat their enemies. Such clouds obscure belief in Muhammad and more recently Bahá’u’lláh.