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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Luke's Pro-Soldier Gospel

 


See "Buy a Sword or Turn your Cheek? Marcion vs. Luke" on YouTube

In this video, Litwa shows how the non-violent pacifist Jesus tradition is modified in the Lucan gospel. He shows how in Luke's gospel, the passages where Jesus seems to promote self-defense and violence, are not found in Marcion's gospel. 


So you have a more consistent "turn the other cheek" and basically be meek and get beat up and don't fight back in the earlier Pauline tradition which is later modified by Luke. Reading John Dominic Crossan's book, Render Unto Caesar: The Struggle Over Christ and Culture in the New Testament of Luke, he makes a similar argument that Luke adds a pro-Roman or Indo-European flavor to the gospel. Adding to this the fact that the consensus of biblical scholarship, is that the author of Luke-Acts was probably a Gentile, and we can see that Christianity can very much be thought of as an Indo-European movement just as much as a Jewish one. Especially when the core elements of Christianity, like the Eucharist and Pneuma have more in common with Stoicism and Greek mystery religions than ancient Judaism.


The Ark Channel's emphasizes on Arthurian Christianity is thus substantiated. When you add to this the book on Revelation by Bart Ehrman, where he describes a more violent and Pagan type of God in Revelation, than the pacifistic concept of god, and you can see that the "nonviolent pacifistic, be a wimp and get bullied" version of Christianity, is only one version of Christianity. 

Litwa goes on to argue that a non-Christian had complained that Christians were not entering the military and becoming soldiers. So part of Luke's agenda was to create a pro-soldier gospel. This is very Indo-European.