Sports teams, politicians, music, movies, we are always cataloguing who won, and who lost. Many Americans believe that competition, rather than freedom and respect for one another are what has made America successful. We love to compete, we love to win, and we have little use for losers. But God loves losers. God loves the outcasts, God loves the nerds, the geeks, God loves those at the bottom of the heap.
Christians have no business making false gods out of winners.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were losers in the game of popularity at school, they were losers in athletic terms, they were losers in the competition to get the prettiest girls. The competition to be one of the winners is literally driving our children crazy. We who are adults have no idea how intense this competition is for our young people. We don't begin to realize what kind of pressure they are under to win, win, at any cost to win. Childhood has been turned into a mad, frenzied pressure to win competitions.