[Peace-discuss] Bellicose rhetoric???

[E. Wayne Johnson]

But Nathan was not silent before King David, neither Paul before Agrippa.

David indeed feigned mental illness before Achish to avoid loss of his 
freedom,
but Jesus did not need to say anything to prove his innocence to Pilate.

C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Yet Jesus is silent before Pilate, altho' I doubt he considered lying.
>
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> E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
>>
>> John W. wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Chomsky says that he differs with his Quaker friends who recommend 
>>> telling
>>> truth to power.  Power already knows the truth, he says, and tries 
>>> to cover
>>> it up.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is true.  Personally, I think it's often more useful to speak 
>>> lies to
>>> (those in) power.  But of course you have to figure out what you 
>>> want to
>>> accomplish with your lies.
>>
>> One reason that it _Can_ be useful to speak the truth to those in 
>> power is
>> that they are at times subject to blind spots from which they can 
>> recover if
>> pointed out by the word fitly spoken.
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