When the propagandizing activities of educational institutions were recently criticized in this column, a defender of these institutions sent an e-mail, claiming that there was nothing wrong with pushing particular beliefs, if those beliefs were correct.
Violating my New Year's resolution to stop trying to reason with unreasonable people, I replied, asking if this man would feel all right, if he were a member of a jury, to vote after having heard only the prosecution's case or only the defendant's case.
His reply was that he would -- if the people presenting one side of the case were people he knew and trusted.
It is easily possible for people whom you love and respect to be completely wrong about something.
Very few people are Jesus Christ.
