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...opening words of your lead article on Obama's victory are astonishing [Nov. 17]. Last week a conservative columnist in the British press complained that many commentators were comparing Obama with Jesus Christ, and I thought he was exaggerating. But then I read in TIME: "Some princes are born in palaces, some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope." Your writer thus places Obama on a more exalted pedestal than Jesus! Surely some sense of proportion is called for? Michael Grenfell, VENCE, FRANCE...
...Supreme Court that legalized same-sex marriage.) While the court weighs whether or not to get back into the fray, the civil unrest ignited by the ban shows no sign of abating. A national protest against Prop. 8 organized by JoinTheImpact.com is scheduled for today. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which opponents say donated more than $20 million to the Yes on 8 campaign, has already become a focus of protests, with demonstrators gathered around Mormon temples not only in California but across the country...
...with your upcoming move to Washington. What school (public or private) should the girls go to? Who should be the new Secretary of State? Goldendoodle or corgi? But there's also the little matter of finding a new church. When you resigned your membership at Trinity United Church of Christ in the spring, you said you would wait until after the election to worry about finding a new church home. But the moving vans will be pulling up to the White House before you know it, and I understand that with two wars and a crumbling economy to deal with...
...also the one thing that inspires Christ's most fervent followers: that Jesus was God's only son, who died for them and so took away sin. Isn't your premise of an acquired godhood heretical to orthodox Christians...
...magnetic stage presence. They’ll do anything to get just a few inches closer to their counselor. But, as the narrator asks at the beginning of the video, who is this Dr. M. Skinner? I am inclined to believe that he is a man of saintly, almost Christ-like greatness. As he strides along the dark stage, his gleaming face illuminates the lecture hall. When he paces through the rows of pupils, his charisma is almost overwhelming. At times one can even fancy a halo beaming around his head. Too bad the blinding light of Skinner?...