Letters and Replies: Jesus and Violence

The Paradox of Faith: Analyzing the Intersection of Belief and Violence in Christianity

To the Editor:

I greatly appreciated Craig Biddle’s article on the Ground Zero mosque, which treated the issue with a depth and completeness that has been lacking in public conversations. I do, however, take issue with one sentence in the article. As part of his argument for the inherently violent nature of religion, Biddle writes, “in the New Testament,…