Aren martial arts violent because they teach people how to fight?
Even in secular martial arts schools, students are taught that it’s better to avoid a single conflict than to win 1000 battles. Valor in the martial arts is the ability to remain self-controlled during intense and heated moments. Compared to football or hockey, the martial arts are like ballet, mainly because they are an art as much as they are a sport. In fact, martial arts actually teach students how to turn the other cheek, and respond to insult in a Godly way. Trained martial artists know that responding to insult in a gentle way softens our enemies’ hearts and puts us in a valorous and advantageous position. Romans 12:19-21 demonstrates the wisdom of responding gently rather than reacting out of hurt feelings or furiously heated moments; “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap
