I love it when someone who publicly expresses hatred for Christians tells Christians how to be true to their beliefs. Go jump in the lake, Meathead.
I perceive that a lot of people outside the faith hear about “turn the other cheek” and figure, hey, Christians will put up with anything, even the rainbow agenda, an obviously stolen election, or an unguarded border.
They missed the parts about Jesus visiting the temple and overturning the tables, or saying, go and sin no more.
I believe that “turn the other cheek” is good advice on the social level, for example, your in-laws or work colleagues are arseholes and needle you knowing you’re a conservative, rather than rising to the bait, just “whatever” their barbs and ignore it. But on a larger scale, I don’t believe in “turn the other cheek” and I think this has even deceived some of the faithful who think it suggests pacifism on a grand scale.
Were we told to turn the other cheek to the likes of Nazis or communists, or for that atter, globalists? I doubt it. It’s too bad there isn’t more clarity, but I sincerely believe that some sayings of Jesus have come down to us with out enough context, and are now being misinterpreted in ways that Jesus would not endorse, but it would help if we got that from source instead of through contemplation.
Reiner probably imagines that Trump is a nasty person who wants to take things away from people, but in fact, the whole premise of an open border (or a carbon tax) is to enable nasty people to come into our homes or workplaces and take things from us, for no good reason. Are there not wealthy people in their own countries who they could rob? Perhaps they know those people are armed and imagine we are not armed. A nasty surprise awaits some of them.
And a nasty surprise awaits Rob Reiner when he encounters the real Jesus and not the one he invented.
If you get to the end of the Book, quite a few will end up in the lake they don’t believe in. It isn’t my job to judge either the living or the dead, as that is above my discernment level.
It is my firm belief that Immanentizing the Eschaton is not a good thing to strive for, so Donald Trump had my support in 2016 when it became clear the he had the best chance to win (after the Ohio primary, watching Cruz and Kasich listen to evil flatterers).