{"id":794,"date":"2008-07-20T18:45:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T00:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithfuldemocrats\/2008\/07\/revenge-no-longer-kicking-it-old-school\/"},"modified":"2013-05-09T06:07:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T12:07:34","slug":"revenge-no-longer-kicking-it-old-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithfuldemocrats\/2008\/07\/revenge-no-longer-kicking-it-old-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge \u0096 No Longer Kicking it Old School"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\nRevenge seems at many times to be a form of justice. Christian Bale as<br>\nBatman struggled with revenge versus justice. Likewise, one of my<br>\nfavorite movies is the Count of Monte Cristo starring Jim Caviezel as<br>\nEdmond Dantes (Jim Caviezel also played Jesus in The Passion of the<br>\nChrist).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\nThe main reason why I liked Edmond Dantes is because he realized all<br>\nof his revenge on his enemies. The movie really delivered everything<br>\nthat you wanted for the hero. However, this is really shallow of me and<br>\nnot true justice nor very Christ like.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSome modern religious people incorrectly justify revenge or an unforgiving justice by quoting Leviticus 24:19-20.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done<br>\nto him: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has<br>\ninjured the other, so he is to be injured.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever Jesus changed all of that in his amazing and radical way.  Matthew 5:44-45\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis verse from Matthew goes back to Christians being the Light of<br>\nthe world for all people. To love our enemies, while difficult without<br>\npraying, is a great way for us to share the joy of Christ\u2019s peace and love.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo are we fighting George Bush's war of revenge in Iraq?  I think so, yet he still trys to twist his motives into a somewhat religious duty of fighting our enemies abroad so we don't have to fight them here.  Sorry Mr. President I'm not buying into it like so many of my fellow Christians.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOriginally published at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamparish.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AdamParish.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revenge seems at many times to be a form of justice. Christian Bale as Batman struggled with revenge versus justice. 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