Letters and Replies: Jesus and Violence

Craig Biddle responds to a letter concerning whether force is inherent in all religions, including 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,…