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Thread #144236 Message #3335728
Posted By: Steve Shaw
09-Apr-12 - 10:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Follow Jesus, not religion Andrew Sullivan
Subject: RE: BS: Follow Jesus, not religion Andrew Sullivan
Sorry, chaps, but Jesus's advice to turn the other cheek wasn't suggesting civil disobedience (which he may also have done, but not here) or dumb insolence. It was to offer the other cheek for your enemy to clatter as well. And we can't know that had Gandhi et al. chosen an entirely different course their people might not have suffered for as long as they did. That owld hippie Jesus also suggested that no-one need worry about garnering for the morrow, for sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Irresponsibility rules OK!