Protestantism

» Brother_Jones - Re Brian's Blog "left-wing Jesus?"

Yes, context is important, but turning the other cheek, or refraining from judgment, or going the extra mile have ramifications *much* beyond the purely personal.

I think you did find the weakness in his article.

The problem is, as I see it, people don't have faith that non-violence will work.

Well, even MLk and Ghandi called on the police to do their stuff from time to time.

They like getting angry and using force. It feels sooooo good. They also (tragically) fail to understand that the time to begin the practice of non-violence is **long before** things get to the point of blows being exchanged.

That is where your argument seems to go bust. We have civil enforcement in place and national enforcement in place, and I guess personal protection in place not so much because we are all against non-violence and that we are somehow angry...but some of us want to protect the rights of the innocent. I would suppose that instead of turning the other cheek to a thief and mugger, that you would call for help and hopefully a local cop would come to your rescue and demonstrate a little non-violence as he/she chased down your assailent.

i am just an oldtimer for the Lord.

-- posted by Brother_Jones