Sounds a bit like Ghandi suggesting that the Jews should have happily gone to their fate in concentration camps to prevent war in europe.
“Sounds a bit like Ghandi suggesting that the Jews should have happily gone to their fate in concentration camps to prevent war in europe.”
That’s the pacifist interpretation of “turn the other cheek,” which I personally reject. I prefer the take that it means don’t take vengence but demand equality/respect. It comports with the biblical themse that (1) vengence isn’t to be taken by man — note that vengence and self defense are different things, as are vengence and righteousness, and (2) do not submit to man, only to God.
Lost part of my earlier reply where I explained (or tried to) that the “don’t take vengence but demand equality/respect” interpretation only makes sense in terms of the culture/history of the day. Surprisingly, the wiki I linked above covers it. (I say surprisingly because I just don’t trust wiki anymore — been plenty said about that in freeper land, though.)