Last September, I spoke to some 2,000 students during their annual lecture at a Baptist college in Pennsylvania . After a short prayer service for peace centered on the Beatitudes, I took the stage and got right to the point. "Now let me get this straight," I said. "Jesus says, 'Blessed are the peacemakers,' which means he does not say, 'Blessed are the warmakers,' which means, the warmakers are not blessed, which means warmakers are cursed, which means, if you want to follow the nonviolent Jesus you have to work for peace, which means, we all have to resist this horrific, evil war on the people of Iraq."
With that, the place exploded, and 500 students stormed out. The rest of them then started chanting, "Bush! Bush! Bush!" So much for my speech. Not to mention the Beatitudes.
Now let me get this straight. If these students were commanded to honor their fathers and mothers, then by Mr. Wright's line of argument, they were not commanded to honor anyone else, which means they were commanded to dishonor him. Which means, if they wanted to obey that commandment, they had to heckle him.
Looks like the students took the same logic course you did, and acted on it.
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