Love your enemies, Jesus says in his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5). Is he serious? Crazy? Love our enemies? We ask, "Why would we do that?" And Jesus says, "So that you may be children of your Father in heaven." Then he gets crazier. "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." What a tall order: Be perfect! The key to being perfect, as God is perfect, it would seem, is to understand that Jesus also says in his Sermon on the Mount that God "makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous."

What's this? God sprinkles rain and shines sun on both the good guys and the bad guys? You mean my God, your God, our God, is the God of those guys, too? You mean God's the God of the Commies, the Iraqis, the North Vietnamese, the …