The Dogs of War

"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war."

Act 3, Scene 1, line 273 of William Shakespeare Julius Caesar:

   I have spent the greater part of my adult life embroiled in one controversy or another. The problem with controversy is that once it has begun, the person who starts it, has no control of its outcome. Like one who cuts open a pillow case full of feathers and sets them to the wind, the individual who sets them to the wind, does not have control where these feathers land.

This was the case with the muslim controversy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. While I was the initial student that raised my concern about Paige Patterson's bending of the rules to allow non-Christians to attend a Southern Baptist seminary, I was not pleased with much of what happened as a result of the issue becoming part of the national news.

That is the problem with starting controversy, there is the possibility of letting slip the dogs of war...