Michael Coren - today's hero in the Star

I've written about him before - the extraordinary Michael Coren, who went from angry narrow-minded right-wing blowhard to open, thoughtful, articulate left-wing commentator in just over a year. If only everyone of his stripe could go through this miraculous conversion, what a beautiful world it would be! As my friend Lynn posted on FB yesterday, "If you see your god as angry, racist, sexist, violent and cruel, you are creating him in your own image."

Something like that.

Coren has written a superb piece in the Star today. I wrote to thank him, and he wrote back to say he'd had lots of abuse about the piece. Not a surprise.

• http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/09/08/voting-conservative-not-the-christian-thing-to-do.html
  
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