Cassie Bernall. With one word this teenage girl became a household name and a part of God's Hall of Fame. On April 20, around 11:30AM, two gun-wielding teenagers at Columbine High School confronted her, and with guns raised, one of them asked her this question: "Do you believe in God?" After a momentary pause, she looked him squarely in the eye and said, "Yes." After he replied simply, "Why?" he shot her and killed her instantly.

But at that one moment, with that one word, Cassie Bernall illustrated a principle that every parent should teach their children—it is better to be a loner than to be a loser. You might say that day that a loner was killed by two losers. The losers are now alone in hell, the loner is now with Jesus in heaven.

James Patterson and Peter Kim wrote a book entitled T…