Approximately twenty-five years ago, I had an intense personal experience that left me with a virtually unshakable belief in a supernatural God. The most unexpected consequence of that most remarkable experience was losing the ability to hate other human beings. I could hate the way certain people treated me or how they mistreated others, but not animus toward the individual. After that fateful night, I no longer found myself occasionally having to resist the urge to punch somebody in the face. Until recently, that is. Even when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda murdered 3,000 American citizens on 9/11 only six years later, I took no pleasure from seeing photographs of dead terrorists. When President Obama spiked the football by announcing that Osama bin Laden had been killed a few months before his reelection in 2012, I was glad that a serious threat to our society had been eliminated, but I could not celebrate the thought he was burning in Hell, even though I believe in Hell and believe...(Read Full Article)