NEW DELHI, Nov. 27 -- It's so very easy to take popular sentiment and whip it into a frenzy. Hitler did that. With Germany furious with the world with the terms of the Armistice, he got most Germans onto his side and inevitably made them a country of murderers. But to stand against popular feelings which an individual feels is unethical and wrong, to face a mob, and that of a wrathful leader, that takes guts and immense courage.

The Biblical prophets of old had this unenviable task to perform. Again and again with shivering body and trembling hearts they approached thrones of tyrants and cruel monarchs and told them they were wrong.

Not just the prophets, Jesus did it too. He pointed to the Pharisees and other whitewashed sepulchres, th...