re: #81 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

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.

I am aware of that, it is just that even Holy Scripture is a matter of interpretation and not absolute. Just like an interpretation of what constitutes “Biblical marriage”…