Whose side are you on?

Richard Bowler attributed the saying “Are you with me or against me?” to Jesus Christ. Jesus never said that. What he said was, “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.” (Matthew 12:30)

Sounds pretty Manichaean, eh? But wait, he also said, “Whoever is not against us is for us.” (Mark 9:40) A contradiction? Not necessarily. Different strokes for different folks, different advice for different contexts. I believe it is very uncool to put Jesus Christ in the same box as George W Bush and Thaksin Shinawatra. There’s a large moral gulf there, in case nobody has noticed. Piously,

S Tsow

Bangkok