A Different World

Cutting funding to HBCUs just isn't fair, Obama

Cutting funding to HBCUs just isn't fair, Obama

The Next Culture War

The Next Culture War

Where Did `We' Go?

Where did ``we'' go?

Taxpayers Already Subsidize Abortion Coverage. Maybe Even Yours!

Taxpayers Already Subsidize Abortion Coverage. Maybe Even Yours!

Cassandras of Climate

Cassandras of Climate

Which Of Your Kids Would You Send To Hell?

The most baffling thing, to me anyway, about a certain view of Christianity is that on the one hand it is based on the thought of an all-loving, all-knowing, all-compassionate God, so compassionate that he would come to earth in the form of Jesus to atone for the sins of humanity -- yet he also knows even before he created a single person that the vast majority of the billions of humans he creates will be sent to hell, a place of eternal damnation, an eternity of torture. And if you challenge that view -- if you take hell away -- you are considered a heretic. If you say a loving God wouldn't do such a thing -- a thing not even human parents can do to their human children, no matter what they've done-- you are considered a danger to the faith, a person who wants to craft God in your own image instead of the other way around. Just think about that: We are taught that love is the basis for everything God does, but to be a ``true'' Christian you must -- must -- believe God is going to send most of humanity to hell. And let's not get caught up in semantics, as some readers did. God would be doing the sending because God created us to be who we are, because God ``knows the ending from the beginning,'' because so-called free will is predicated on what and where we were at birth, decisions made by God, not us. But just that's just my take. Below are the views of some readers:

Stephen Colbert `Defends' Racists With Blackwashing

Stephen Colbert `defends' racists

Coming Out in Middle School

NYT Magazine: ``... Austin doesn’t have to play “the pretend game,” as he calls it, anymore. At his middle school, he has come out to his close friends, who have been supportive. A few of his female friends responded that they were bisexual. “Half the girls I know are bisexual,” he said. He hadn’t planned on coming out to his mom yet, but she found out a week before the dance. “I told my cousin, my cousin told this other girl, she told her mother, her mother told my mom and then my mom told me,” Austin explained. “The only person who really has a problem with it is my older sister, who keeps saying: ‘It’s just a phase! It’s just a phase!’ ”

Fighting Global Warming: It's Easy Being Green

Fighting Global Warming: It's Easy Being Green

`Why ACORN was in the news and what the news got wrong'

`Why ACORN was in the news and what the news got wrong'