There are a couple of ways of dying for what you believe in. According to the story, Jesus told people to love one another and he protested against injustice. For this, he was arrested on Thursday evening, had about the speediest trial in history, was convicted of being "troublemaker," and was led to execution around noon on Friday. I don't think that's quite the same as wrapping explosives around your body and blowing yourself up on a crowded bus or hijacking a commercial airplane and flying it into a building.

Jesus harmed no one. He killed no one. Quite the contrary, if the story of Lazarus is indeed true.

Same sort of thing happened to Gandhi. Martin Luther King. Some other folks. . . .

Don Firth