Exodus 23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

In 1968 after I returned from Vietnam, I was stationed at Fort Hood. There was an anti-war protest at the University of Texas that summer and I marched in that protest. When I returned back to base I was visited by two officers from the Criminal Investigation Division. They had photos of me marching on the drag.

“Did you stay to listen to the speaker at the Capitol?” No.

“Did you know the organizer is a communist?” No

“Why were you protesting?” Because unlike so many of these college students I was there and I saw firsthand the horrors of war and I have the right to voice my objections just like any citizen.

There is much evil in the world. Not all evil is foreign in origin. Some destroy with bombs. Some destroy in much more clandestine ways. You can see wrongs everywhere, because man is everywhere. Are all evil? No. Some are just caught up in frustration, not knowing the truth, and lashing out at unseen enemies.

1 Corinthians 9:25-27 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

As a soldier of the Cross I owe this to the One who died for me.