A question of boundaries

Question Time on BBC1 last night was more entertaining than usual, and quite good. Last of series, audience all under 22, and an 18-year old on the panel. A pantomime atmosphere at times. Douglas Murray, director of a unit of social cohesion or something - sounded good - was at points doing all he could to subvert social cohesion by his vehement manner of making points. A real pantomime baddie in the audience's eyes with plenty of appropriate booing! And Davina defending her position on one point 'because I'm right'! Great fun - meanwhile, one or two frighteningly bright students periodically helping raise the debate above Jerry Springer level.
A church friend has publicised a 'Rally against terror' in George Sq tomorrow pm. The blurb refers to the issue being about the terrorists on one side v. everyone else on the other, people of faith or no faith, from all walks of life. This echoes a sentiment often heard in politics and the media: a 'tiny violent minority' versus 'the vast majority of decent law-abiding citizens', or Blair/Brown refering to those 'who threaten our way of life'. What interests me is the contrast between this kind of thinking and the gospel challenge. The first looks at the surface of things: terrorist violence is plainly an atrocity. The second, God's perspective, is concerned with the heart. And here every one of us faces choice and challenge. How well does my life measure up to God's standard? CS Lewis's insight is pertinent here, when he said there are no 'ordinary' people, because each of us is ultimately immortal and on a path of inner choice leading progressively either to heaven or hell. Stark, no question, and challenges the underlying assumption of the above notion that most of us are basically okay: where are the boundary lines really drawn?