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Some of the absolute nonviolence stuff got put in to the King James version of the Bible because King James wanted a passive population.
One of my favorite bits from the Gandhi speechs on the sermon on the mount is about the "impossible" question Jesus got asked. The Roman army would randomly kidnap people and force them to hall there stuff. Israel was under occupation at the time and people wanted to resist that occupation. Also, hauling stuff on the sabbath was against the religious law. So Jesus got asked if he would hall stuff for the Roman army on a sabbath. If he said no, they were going to turn him in as a rebel. If he said yes, well, what religious leader says ignore the sabbath?
However, Jesus knew the rules on hauling for the Roman's. They would only force you to haul until the next marker. If a Roman soldier forced you to do more than that, they would be whipped for disobeying the rules. So he simply stated: "If someone asked you to haul for one mile, haul for two. Then call out ' I have hauled for two miles, how many more do I have to do?' Then the solder who asked you to do this will be whipped. If all Jews did this, the army would stop asking jews to haul - thus preserving the sabbath."
It's bizarre to me the things people will make up to rationalize to themselves that Christianity is not non-violent.
No one was seeking to "trick" romans into getting in trouble by hauling shit extra distances. That doesn't even make sense as a concept. It's again, email-forward level of "just trick the system!" It's nonsense.
The entire point of that passage is that the Gospel is to be spread through meekness and humility. Which is why, you know, every single teaching of Jesus's revolves around these concepts.
In what way was helping the Romans by lifting there stuff violent? The whole concept of Gandhi's speeches was that pacifism wasn't just rolling over and taking abuse. Jesus's non-violent teaching went on to inspire many movements from Gandhi's, Martin Luther and Martin Luther King. Trying it back the article, it seems people think non-violent = weak these days. I'm just pointing out that there is a nuance that has seemingly been lost, and sometimes the non-violent approach is one of the strongest approchs you can take to a situation.
I didn't say carrying things for a roman was violent. I said the radical misinterpretations of Christianity are done to make room for violence. The "carry it 2 miles and get them in trouble" thing is just false, and the story about Ghandi referencing it probably apocryphal.
Jesus commands all Christians, very explicitly, to be non-violent regardless of circumstances, up to and including their own torture and death
Yes, but just because you are non-violent does not mean you have no way of fighting injustice, or are weak, as the Trumper say.
Sure! not arguing against that at all.