Name me one married couple with a Jew where the non-Jew didn’t convert to Judaism on marriage??
Yet JD Vance, supposedly a bastion of Catholic conservativism, couldn’t even bother to marry someone who was Catholic or willing to convert to Catholicism. This after thousands of years of Catholicism successfully infiltrating the entire WORLD through conversion. WTF??
EDIT: Apparently he was raised Protestant, then converted to Catholicism himself. Makes a bit more sense, as we already know how cucked modern Western Protestants are.
Context doesn't make it much better. It was basically the bronze age version of pointing out the other side's hypocrisy. It was just as effective back then as it is now.
If our winning strategy is to wait it out until the empire collapses under its own corruption so that we can rule over the ashes through the dark ages, why not just go full accelerationist?
You're not following through with the interpretation. Look at as an allegorical lesson, a parable. Ignore the examples given, and look at what Jesus is basically saying at it's core.
If you have an opponent, force him to respect you.
If they seek to ruin you, force them to be shamed by society.
If they seek to enslave you, force them to break the law.
There's nothing passive about that. It's the very essence of being proactive, of pushing back against those that would hurt you.
So, he should have done the bronze age version of fed-posting in large public fed-infested places, before it was time?
That's another big bit of context, a running theme, the pharasies trying to get Jesus to say something and put him into rhetorical traps as with 'render unto Caeser' coin thing. The Romans know this too, and they question specifics who exactly he is claiming to be king of and in what way it is meant. All while there are these groups insisting on violent resistance and rebellions, much of the population is clamouring for and insisting on it, and some believe the messiah is supposed to lead it.
He didn't even do that much and the still executed him. If you are gonna do the time you might as well do the crime.
He had a few years before that to teach his disciples and spread his teachings
And seeing how it then spread and made the west, I'd say it all worked out reasonably well the way he did it actually.