My thesis that the practice of nonviolence requires a belief in divine vengeance will be unpopular with many Christians . . . Soon you would discover that it takes the quiet of a suburban home for the birth of the thesis that human nonviolence corresponds to God’s refusal to judge. In a scorched land, soaked in the blood of the innocent, it will invariably die. And as one who watches it die, one will do well to reflect about many other pleasant captivities of the liberal mind.7
