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					Originally Posted by asaris
					
				 
				Yes, but Jesus also said "If you don't have a sword, go out and buy one" and "I have not come to bring peace, but a sword". This is the guy who, when he found merchants selling things in the temple, used a whip to drive them out. Scripture's teaching on the use of violence is hardly as simple as 'turn the other cheek'. 
			
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 How about metaphor?  
And there's a big difference between essentially, a protest against corruption in God's name, and war.