Violence Is Evil. Period.

I had a veteran friend once tell me, "The biggest lie I have ever been told is that violence is evil, except in war." He went on, "My government told me that. My Church told me that. My family told me that. ... I came back from war and told them the truth -- 'Violence is not evil, except in war. ... Violence is evil -- period.'"

Every day it seems like we are bombarded with news stories of violence -- a shooting in Colorado, a bus bombing in Bulgaria, drones gone bad and the threat of a nuclear Iran, a civil war in Syria, explosions in Afghanistan and Iraq.