ping...
figured I’d better post this before I get banned again!
To those who wondered, the Christian doctrine of "turn the other cheek", is not a contradiction to the martial arts -- quite the reverse, it is a prerequisite. As any competent sensei will tell you, the only person who is fit to learn martial arts, is the one who is truly willing to "turn the other cheek" and "go the second mile" to deescalate, defuse, or just walk away from antisocial violence -- even at the cost of his pride -- reserving the use of martial arts only to the rare situation, so-called "asocial" violence, to use Tim Larkin's term, where force is truly unavoidable and necessary. (Luke 22:36, get a sword, etc.)
By all accounts, Kina exemplified this virtue. He was reported to be a very kind and gentle man. He could afford to be!
Another interesting fact about Kina is that, like so many other martial artists, he lived a long time. Accounts vary but he was somewhere between 97 and 100 at his death in 1981.
Kinda puts to death the old “America is a Christian nation” myth, don’t it?
Amazing how blind we as a nation are over here...we’re going the opposite way.
Great story.
Truth or fictiion?
The Word of God changes people!
How far we have fallen from it!
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,886757,00.html
And Catholics had been in Japan for about 400 years by that point: http://www.cbcj.catholic.jp/eng/jcn/jul2009.htm
Thank you for posting! So amazing!
Hiroshima had the largest church in Japan. A great amount were killed when the bomb came. But also some had dreams to leave before it was dropped and they survived. There were different christian types. There was a christian monk who survived -right after devotionals he was having breakfast and then the bomb came, Total destruction around the area around him except the building he was in at the time. He survived no cancer for 30 plus years going to churches around the world as a witness.
A wonderful story. Thanks for posting it.
Thank you.