September 14, 2021

Ep. 3: Slapping Jesus

24 minutes

When Matt's friend Faraz decides to play Jesus Christ in their next campaign, he calls on Joe to examine Faraz's pacifist savior. In the real world, violent crusades and genocide in the name of God seem to violate Jesus's peaceful teachings... But what do Jesus and the Church say about violence? How do we resist violence? When is violence allowed? Is it EVER allowed? Does it matter who commits the violence?

Find out on today's episode of Dungeons & Dialectics!

Sources:

The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version. New York: Oxford University, 1996.

Matthew 5:39: "Do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."

Matthew 6:26: "Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?"

Matthew 12:31-32: "And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come."

Matthew 25:40: "Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."

Matthew 26:51-52: "With that, one of Jesus’ companions reached for his sword, drew it out and struck the servant of the high priest cutting off his ear. 'Put your sword back in its place,' Jesus said to him, 'for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.'"

Christopher H. Evans, The Social Gospel in American Religion: A History, NYU Press, US, 2017.

Ellacuría, Ignacio. “El desafío de las mayorías pobres”, Estudios Centroamericanos (El Salvador), vol. 44, núm. 493-494 (1989), pp. 1075-1080, p. 1075.

Ellacuría, Ignacio. "Trabajo no violento por la paz y violencia liberadora", Concilium, no. 215, 1988, p. 84-94

Gutiérrez, Gustavo. "Teología y ciencias sociales." vol. 25, no. 99, Sept. 1986.

Hugo Assmann (1991). The strange imputation of violence to liberation theology, Terrorism and Political Violence. 3:4.

Orr, Edgar W. (1958). Christian pacifism. C.W. Daniel Co.

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