What Does Jesus Mean By “Resist Not Evil?
Society spends a great deal of time ignoring the moral values it supposedly reveres. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about forgiveness, which is at the very heart of Christian morality. Has this country forgiven anyone recently? Or have we turned into a society of perpetual blame and punishment? It’s undoubtedly true that Jesus’s message about “resist not evil” is extremely radical, and no society has come close to living up to it. Revenge is so much easier, but unfortunately it is not only immoral but extremely un-Christian. People seem to assume that the moment you brand someone else as evil (terrorists, Nazis, mass murderers, pedophiles, etc.), you have every right to seek revenge against them. The War on Terror is based on this notion. The first person to disagree, however, happens to be Jesus, which our right-wing religious hawks seem to ignore. If you look at the passage in the New Testament where Jesus says to turn the other cheek (Matthew 5:38-42), the whole speech illustrate
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