The only people "frothing" at the mouth in this context has been by people like D'Souza whose hate-filled attitudes towards those who have different views have been on display for years. Whether it is a duly elected president, a "liberal," a "Democrat" and most of all an "atheist" he has poured untold buckets of contempt upon them and made a living doing it. Liberty "University" was founded by a man who made such brilliant and loving assertions as "If you read the Bible God says you are faggot." We remember the hate filled rant after 911 and the subsequent rants against Muslims by this bloviating fool and his defender in the intellectual and moral fraud D'Souza. When I read columns like this and when I can't avoid it hear mindless utterances from people like the late and hardly great Falwell and D'Souza, I am reminded of one Friedrich Nietzsche's many fitting quotations: "Christians spend too much time judging."

Had "World" check the facts there may have been no message to deliver. We are all human and God knows that we have all made mistakes. What were the mistakes and cicumstances of DDS ? Why does this damage DDS message? When we sin and we all sin do we not know of our mistake? Does error in one judgement make our life's work invalid? Big picture truths and concepts cannot be undone by human scandal. How many timed did Peter deny Christ?

The truth of something is not, thankfully, dependent upon the character of the bearer of that truth.

In the play, the life of the guard is spared. But not all bearers of unwelcome news are so lucky.

s no one burning with my kind of passion? Can't we just be like a Jonathan, to David? Rather than being disappointed, can't we like Paul, just guide the fallen to move on and start on a clean slate? For the more I read the D'Souza's trial, the more I grow with passion to reduce the amount of scandals our leaders (un/consciously) project (in my sphere of influence. I believe, I can turn the page around by holding these community of leaders accountable (as friends). Jesus said, "I have the keys of the kindom of David." What this means is that there will forever be LEADERS (His messengers) who will stir our imagination with His message. However, these human would also have weaknesses And Jesus' role is to ensure He gets as much labourers' into the harvest, while ours is to NURTURE the Davids in them, like Jonathan would do. The world is watching. By the way, thanks Paul Hager. @chrisomoagba

It shows christians real don't believe the bible but want others to believe what they don't believe.Their behaviors contradicts their beliefs,for christianity is a fraud and failure.

Thanks, Adam, for your comments. I hope it doesn't offend but to me that's a very Western viewpoint on decorum and also demostrates the Western reliance on the letter of the law. I understand it but I doubt D'Sousa does. Often, Eastern mindset interprets the spirit of the law and in this case, D'Sousa seemed to have done just that. If he were more aware of Western sensibilities and culture, he could have chosen to keep his relationship secret by introducing the woman as his personal assistant or something till he got his divorce. A 'good' thing that could come out of this for him is that now he knows how to behave in the future - hide from the public eye what is deemed unacceptable behaviour because from all accounts, he still doesn't know what the fuss is all about. I hope that if he has a Western Christian friend that that friend will help him understand where he is perceived to have gone wrong. I have a feeling, he'll continue to be 'unrepentant' because in his Eastern heart, he believes he has done nothing wrong and that the attacks on him are efforts, as he has claimed, to ruin his life and career.

D'Souza is an excellent proponent of biblical and philosophical truth. However truth is true no matter what person speaks it. From a biblical perspective we all need God's grace, no less that Paul, or Peter or James of the early church. They were all great men of God but fallible. As the bible says we carry this truth in earthen vessels that the excellence of the truth is Christ Jesus and Him crucified, buried, and resurrected. This is truth, everything else is dross. If we believe we are the truth, because of how holy we are, then we hold this truth to be dependent upon how well we live it. Truth has nothing to do with the vessel that carries it. If it is true then it is true no matter the righteousness of the vessel. It has no bearing on the validity of the truth. Dinesh is an imperfect vessel for sure, but it doesn't really matter because if he speaks truth, his own personal righteousness has no bearing on the truth. Every one of us has dark places and our thoughts condemn us; we are all imperfect vessels of God's truth. If there are places of misunderstanding, or darkness in our thinking, then it is really up to God to reveal that so that someone can be restored in their community. Many Christians still hold to the belief that their personal holiness will contradict the message and degrade God's message. This may be true on one level, but God's truth has endured many Christians who have not lived out the perfect Christian life and the "church," has endured and flourished. Many Popes in the past were very unfaithful people but still carried the message of Jesus Christ. I say all this not in defence of Dinesh, but if we were him, with his experience, his thinking, his culture, his beliefs, we would surely have done the same thing. Divorce is not the ultimate sin, it is not even the greatest sin. The greatest sin is not trusting Jesus Christ to deliver us from evil to deliver us to the Kingdom of God. Dinesh is a great apologist but he is still human and an imperfect vessel for the truth. Truth is true no matter what vessel it comes in and Dinesh is just one more vessel for God's truth.

I agree that we should see D'Souza's sin in the context of God's grace. But in deciding how to handle this matter the Christian community has to take seriously how much damage men like D'Souza do. I don't mean to the non-Christian's view of us (though that matters), but to the Christian community. Are we going to give him a pass because of his other work? Are we going to underestimate the damage he has done to young Christians who see him as a role model? I'm a pastor's daughter so I saw my share of scandals growing up (my father was not one of them, thank God) and now I teach at a Christian university so I know the Christian community well. The repeated betrayal of trust by leaders within the church is a major cause of people under 30 abandoning the church.We build cults of personality around men like D'Souza and then they fail in spectacular, unrepentant ways. And even more of our idols fail in ways that are covered up by their followers. Did you know Schaeffer used to beat his wife, for instance? This isn't an isolated incident - it's a pattern that has become endemic within evangelical America over the last few decades. We "ordinary" Christians need to do a better job watching how we idolize such men and women and how we keep them accountable in the Lord.

This episode and discussion suggest Philip Yancey had it precisely correct when he said Evangelicalism could be greatly enriched with a dose of grace. Sinners who focus on their own sins rather than the sins of others, as D'Sousa did in his nationally distributed film, are rarely accused of being hypocritical. Holiness is an aspiration for humans but a claim for Pharisees. Our faith will be embarrassed far less when we grasp that biblical reality.