re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

So the same thing happens to a Christian. He certainly sees that something is wrong, but he does nothing to stop his assailants as Christ has told him to turn the other cheek…

I think that the idea of turning the other cheek was to avoid the endless cycle of action - reaction like you have in the Balkans where one side attacks the other and claims it is revenge for the what the other side did, and for which the other side said that was a reaction to an older attack by the first side. Scholars don’t think it is an injunction against self-defense.