Monsignor Pope Ping!
Thanks. Not Catholic but Truth is Truth.
Turn the other cheek. What happens when you run out of cheeks? And perhaps that is when you realise you are casting pearls and it becomes appropriate to shake the dust off of your feet and move along.
I only see 2?
I believe what Jesus was referring to as ‘dogs’ and ‘swine’ were the Sanhedrin and the Pharisees of his day.
The ‘pearl and ‘that which is holy’ is the Gospel of the New Covenant. To preach the Gospel to the Sanhedrin and Pharisees of his time would have been not only a waste of the apostles’ and disciples’ time and efforts, but dangerous also, as Saul, later Saint Paul would clearly illustrate.
As Paul stated in the end of the Book of Acts:
24 Some were convinced by what he said, but others would not believe. 25 They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your ancestors when he said through Isaiah the prophet:
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“‘Go to this people and say,
“You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
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For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’[a]
28 “Therefore I want you to know that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!” [29] [b]
I think that's what can happen when trying to explain personal faith and belief to atheists.
Worse still comes from agnostic women with anger and trust issues toward men in general, and toward men in authority in particular.
Yikes..."tear you to pieces" like walking a mine field while juggling hand grenades while being shot at with belt-fed weapons.
The same has also been true with those who have issues with the supernatural and/or believing that the miracles cited in Scripture actually took place.
They are NOT having any of that.
"Git and stay the hell off my yard!" is the message being sent and received.