> I don't think you have to be a Christian to subscribe to the thought that the idea of "turning the other cheek" ... The concept, phrase and idiom has its ori

> I don't think you have to be a Christian to subscribe to the thought that the idea of "turning the other cheek" ... The concept, phrase and idiom has its origin in the Sermon on the Mount in Chapter 5 of the Gospel of Matthew, a sermon ostensibly given by a Cynic and rebel Jew between 28AD-33AD, neatly proving your suspicion correct.