In the face of violence, do you radically 'turn the other cheek'?
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You Can't Humilate Me With the Back of Your Hand
Jesus is talking about top-down humiliation, which is at the heart of violence to humiliate somebody. He's not talking about a fist fight. What we're talking about is a master to his slave, a mean violent husband to his submissive abused wife. The Roman soldiers coming along to these poor peasants. And Jesus is saying, look, in the past you've been told you there's only two options. You can fight back or you can be passive and do nothing.
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