“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a dscending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.” Martin Luther King, Jr. “An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind” Mohandas K. Mahatma GhandiFAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 USC section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
The law of retaliation (Ex.21:24;Lev.24:20;Deut.19:21) was not intended to encourage personal revenge, but to protect the offender from punishment harsher than his offense warranted.(Mt.5:38-42) Jesus forbids revenge by insisting upon positive good in the face of evil in the terms of personal insult (v.39), legal contention (v.40), forced labor (v.41), and requests for gifts or loans (v.42). See also: Gal.5:16-26;Col.3:1-11. If we reject Christ by an act of freewill, how will one succeed?Col2:8
@johnnythinker But, don’t you think that most of these acts by LE are not actually LE, but REVENGE?
@MARKETEX Yes I do. (As far as these type of incidents go – whether indirectly by ‘dirty’ politics using corrupt laws for ulterior motives, or whether at the hand of a power tripping cop feeling slighted.) I think the system of checks and balances that were to prevent these sort of blatant abuses have been cleverly bypassed under false pretenses. Have you ever heard of what theologians refer to as the ‘sin nature’? (and I don’t mean to come off as if to lecture a combat vet 24 yrs. my senior.)
@johnnythinker …For what it’s worth, I see this partly as a failure of the church. We have far too many ‘Christians’ who are preoccupied w/ self, and the false teachers who are ‘tickling the ears’ of a greedy, materialistic, hedonistic society. (As prophesied by the apostle Paul, 2 Tim. 3:1-5; 1 Tim. 4: 1-3)
Not to try to dominate your board w/ my pulpit though sir, I think this is a good video. You have succeeded in pointing out some very important points that people need to start considering.
@johnnythinker Johnny, that was one fact that another guy had trouble with, ie, in the Air Force, there actually are TS assignments stateside, as not everybody is a pilot or support crew, since some of us actually administrate and train others to do so. I’m not BILKO, but I’m not RAMBO, either.
The sin nature thing among men who preferred branches of the service like the training film that begins this video, or just RAMBO, and they didn’t come back whole.
Once a killer….
@MARKETEX Most all my family / friends who were in the military were army / marines. By ‘TS’ assign., you mean ‘training site’?
@johnnythinker Well, either way – I don’t call you sir because I’m trying to put a Rambo type on a pedestal, nor am I trying to patronize you. I have great respect for any man who’s able to articulate honest, principled thought, and stimulate positive action in the hearers.
@johnnythinker Yep!