Taken to extremes, does it encourage people to ignore events like the Holocaust? A different attitude always seems to be taken to the suffering of others though, and there's some support for this approach in the gospels but not an awful lot from what I can see. Just to be clear what I'm talking about, I'll post an extract of the passage I'm referring to.

You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you

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Taken to extremes, does it encourage people to ignore events like the Holocaust?

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some people believe it never even happened.

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EDIT: The post I was replying to, which seemed fairly harmless if a touch pointless, was deleted.

Post edited at 5:05 pm on July 4, 2008 by clomb

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You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you

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thats utter shite

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what does it mean to "ignore an event"?

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Well in the example given I suppose it would be not to intervene with any force. The Holocaust is a bad example now I think of it as it isn't why world war 2 started. A hypothetical example if probably better than any real one; if a regieme as brutal as the Nazi's rose to power in your country would you oppose it militarily if you had the means or would this philosophy of not resisting evil stop you?

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would this philosophy of not resisting evil stop you?

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Post edited at 5:14 pm on July 4, 2008 by hithere

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To hithere, that was my question really. I think, and I may be wrong, Christians have varying attitudes to this philosophy.

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I think anybody who holds an irrational belief in one of the worlds many ridiculous organised religions need to grow the fuck up and research who actually wrote the books they hold as "word of god".

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Hardly the point though, was a question about the idea, not whether you are religious or not.

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I think anybody who holds an irrational belief in one of the worlds many ridiculous organised religions need to grow the fuck up and research who actually wrote the books they hold as "word of god".

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Quote: from boothy at 7:21 pm on July 4, 2008

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I think anybody who holds an irrational belief in one of the worlds many ridiculous organised religions need to grow the fuck up and research who actually wrote the books they hold as "word of god".

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What does that have to do with anything?

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Oh you know, nothing.

But I like to feel involved.

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