I suspect much of what we may hear out of Beirut from Christians are false expressions of unity borne of fear of reprisal from the Islamic militants. Public expressions do not equate to inner feelings in that part of the world.
Time magazine, the reiterratings of respective loses are tools of the relativists, something Pope Benedict deems a yoke around the necks of this world.
(I suspect much of what we may hear out of Beirut from Christians are false expressions of unity borne of fear of reprisal from the Islamic militants.)
Not quite. The calls for unity are real. There are real efforts by Christians and other Lebanese to get the Shiites to turn away from Hezbollah, and toward Lebanon. We want to earn their loyalty by being there for them during their darkest hour. I haven't heard of any Lebanese Christian supporting Hezbollah. People need to separate comments regarding Hezbollah vs comments regarding the civilian Shiite population.