This past weekend, a viral video at a baseball game emerged whereby a liberal boomer lady berated a father who capitulated and gave a homerun ball that he retrieved out of his son’s glove and into her hand. The woman has gone viral for her selfish behavior. Afterwards, he defended his actions to a dejected look from his son who the ball was taken from and his daughter.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1964689814541983924
Many lessons were learned here, and none of them are good. The son learned not to respect his father, who took him to a game to get a homerun ball, only to forfeit the ball to an infantile septuagenarian.
But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.
Matthew 5:39
The phrase turning the other cheek comes to mind in this situation, but none of the contexts that Jesus provides in this teaching involve a man who is actively caring for others. Instead, they deal with personal insults and grievances. So while the move was wrongly hailed by some on the internet as the right thing to do, making her go away and thus looking even worse, the man punished his son and rewarded evil in his handling of the altercation.
This was not Christ-like. Turning the other cheek in this situation would have been allowing her to escalate and even hit you, so that she gets kicked out of the stadium. A man should defend his son with vigor, not cower to female tears. His son learned a huge lesson that day.
I tend to think that the Gideon ratio is perhaps universal. Most people are cowards. And such a vice is how things have gotten this bad in society.
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When Jesus said to turn the other cheek, He was referring to minor insults against YOURSELF, NOT insults against people you care about.
Turn the other cheek simply means not to act like a thug and start a fight in a McDonalds because the cashier was rude to you, or attack someone because they insulted your shoes.
Turn the other cheek does NOT mean to allow evildoers to harm you or the people you care about.
Only an evil deity would expect people to allow evildoers to commit harm, and Jesus Christ is NOT an evil deity.
Jesus Christ is a Good and Righteous God who expects and commands us to stand up to evil, resist evil, and fight against evil.
In the case referenced in the article, where the argument is over a baseball, that actually might be a case for turning the other cheek, since sportsball is stupid and irrelevant. Instead of teaching his son to worship athletes, the father should be teaching his son to value things that really matter, such as the White race and White racial identity and White racial loyalty.
Coward ? I did not have that reaction at all. This woman was a lunatic. Continued engagement might have resulted in something worse. The husband of this woman was the coward. According to the Father of the boy, he sat with his hand covering his face in embarrassment. Now that’s a coward.