that words of peace and understanding will be ferociously attacked. You have seen it everywhere lately. Responses to words of peace recently beget words like; wussies, cowardly pacifists, misguided, unpatriotic and thinly veiled death threats.

One iteresting thing is the way that the phrase "turning the other cheek" seems increasingly to be used as a sneer. And this mostly from people who would say that they are Christians.