tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10328789.post2635912143195623986..comments2023-04-04T04:06:41.971-04:00Comments on Respondeo dicendum: Resisting evilbrendonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10074867504254411465noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10328789.post-41378045724994767452008-07-14T17:21:00.000-04:002008-07-14T17:21:00.000-04:00Brendon:My bad.I had mis-interpreted the context o...Brendon:<BR/><BR/>My bad.<BR/><BR/>I had mis-interpreted the context of your post as being a carry-over from W4.<BR/><BR/>Should've listened to the Great Philosopher who once remarked: <BR/><BR/>"IF you would argue with me, define your terms!"<BR/><BR/>Or something like that...<BR/><BR/>Cheers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10328789.post-59477993132342744682008-07-14T16:31:00.000-04:002008-07-14T16:31:00.000-04:00That Christ scolded those who had deliberately vio...<I>That Christ scolded those who had deliberately violated the sanctity of The Temple by their irreverent actions (which is roughly analogous to a parent spanking a child) is not the same (hardly, in fact) as responding to an antagonist with violence.</I><BR/><BR/>Well, since my post said nothing at all of violence, only of the liceity of resisting evil, I am going to have to ask you to define brendonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10074867504254411465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10328789.post-63624703615613261922008-07-14T16:13:00.000-04:002008-07-14T16:13:00.000-04:00That Christ scolded those who had deliberately vio...That Christ scolded those who had deliberately violated the sanctity of The Temple by their irreverent actions (which is roughly analogous to a parent spanking a child) is not the same (hardly, in fact) as responding to an antagonist with violence.<BR/><BR/>In fact, what you had cited here seems to me but a non-sequitur (although I appreciate the attempt).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10328789.post-39816900507431587772008-07-11T21:59:00.000-04:002008-07-11T21:59:00.000-04:00You do not see Paul, let alone Jesus Himself, reso...<I>You do not see Paul, let alone Jesus Himself, resorting to the latter...</I><BR/><BR/>"And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew" (John 2:15). QED.brendonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10074867504254411465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10328789.post-23665261055386141922008-07-11T19:13:00.000-04:002008-07-11T19:13:00.000-04:00Resisting evil by non-violent means is not the sam...Resisting evil by non-violent means is not the same as resisting evil using even violence.<BR/><BR/>You do not see Paul, let alone Jesus Himself, resorting to the latter even when the situations they were faced then would have called for such acts of self-defense in the case of antagonists violently attacking their very person; that is, their very life.<BR/><BR/>The traditional Christian virtue Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com