• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Usually I’d call someone like that a hypocrite, but considering he took two bullets… I understand why he wouldn’t want a repeat of that experience.

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        6 months ago

        Weirdly “it’s gods will” doesn’t apply in this case.

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          6 months ago

          I mean it does, god wanted him to get shot twice and survive and then build a bulletproof popemobile to not get shot a third time.

          God’s will is a pretty ironclad argument as long as you don’t really believe in free will, or at least believe that God is powerful enough to know how every decision will be made in spite of free will.

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        ahem The deity he follows says that he should turn the other cheek and not only allow it to happen again, but to happily and freely provide the opportunity. You can still call him hypocritical.

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          To be fair, that was advice for nonviolent resistance against the state, in a context where slapping someone’s other cheek presented social difficulties to the oppressor. In order to slap someone’s other cheek you had to use your unclean left hand, disgracing yourself by vulgar behaviour, or use a forehand slap with your right hand, which implicitly acknowledges the victim as your social equal. Turning the other cheek is a great way to fuck with the Romans.

          The New Testament is full of practical advice for anarchist Jews to use against the state.