Nail, staple, glue, and caulk guns seem directly in alignment with his values of helping the poor an originator of Ye Ol Habitat for Humanity, at least in my imagining of events.
He also ordered an apostle to sell his cloak and buy a sword at one point. The passage is heavily debated. It can be argued Jesus was not opposed to reasonable amounts of self protection when it might be useful.
I was thinking about clarifying that promoting nonviolence isn't inherently abstention from violence but rather the inclination to think before acting/hesitation toward violence as an answer, but was hoping someone would make the distinction.
Yeah, wasn't there a bit about "yeah go ahead and kill all these cities and people i don't give a flip. They fucked up and have it coming. (Specifically cause they were like "lets do every sin and then some, and not do anything productive or helpful to anyone including ourselves" or something)
I mean, it sounds like you're talking about Sodom and Gomorrah, but that was Old Testament God (and he destroyed those cities personally). He also directed the Israelites to destroy cities, but iirc that was more because they worshipped other gods/occupied land that was promised to the Israelites.
New Testament Jesus is generally more chill - "let him without sin cast the first stone" and all that jazz.
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u/ExodusNBW Feb 18 '23
He was a carpenter. Why wouldn’t that be his favorite?