Oh - and also - it pleased God to take the weak things, the foolish things of this world to confound the "wisdom of the wise" (in their own eyes) bring His Salvation to His Beloveds through the "foolishness" of the Cross upon which the Prince of GLORY died!
"If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me". Another "radical" gave that "rule" and it is one that neither Hitlery, nor Alinsky, nor Stalin, nor Saddam, nor all the gates of hell shall prevail against!
re posts 29/30 - couldn't have said it better myself. Jesus is the trump card they can never beat.