Dear Editor:
Where are the Christians? All I’m hearing is eye-for-eye. Okay, that’s the Holy Land way, but Jesus introduced something radical: the other cheek. Turning the other cheek is not weakness. Just the opposite. Jesus was not some saintly type reeking of temple incense, he more resembled Che Guevara.
He lived in the world, was a carpenter, smelled of sweat, associated with prostitutes and wine-bibbers, and knew from experience, not books, the only path to peace. He knew that one does not strike another for nothing. Oh, we can return slap for slap, harder and harder, but we’ll never have security in our country again; — our children will not gambol round us in safe innocence in our homes and streets again — until we load the pipe with some yerba buena, pass it around, have a parley, talk peace, compromise, reconcile.
Thus Jesus preached. So why don’t those who call themselves Christians (starting with George Bush, who once claimed Jesus as his role model) practice it?
T. Weed