Nov 7, 2006
Hi there! God bless you and keep you as I, the meister of ministry, welcome you to another dose of devoutness for the undoubtedly devious. I’m sorry to say that I’m a bit miffed this week. I take it as a personal affront when someone tries to deny the word.Granted, this is a free country, and we are all entitled to our own opinion. It’s just that when someone’s opinion is soooo wrong, it starts to make you wonder about how amendable those darned amendments ought to be.
Our faith faces a great many enemies: democrats, liberals, liberal democrats, Satanists, Osama Bin Laden, abortion, Islam, and the most insidious villain of them all, The Scientific Method.
….ecch, it turns my blood cold just typing it.
It was, of course, an argument over this which spurned me. While protesting pornography outside of a predominantly male drinking establishment called ‘Ben Dover’s Bangers and Brew’, I became entrenched in an argument over that most detestable of atheist conspiracies, EVOLUTION.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with this theory, GOOD FOR YOU!!! But just to fill you in, the theory suggests that life began as muck in the ocean and slowly turned into man over time. How could people be taken in by this? Honestly, how can anyone possibly believe that some sort of viscous fluid could somehow, over a period of time, turn into a person? Nonsense.
Never the less, he kept going on and on about how the earth is more than 5500 years old, and dinosaurs were real and not test of our faith, and that you can see examples of evolution just by looking around the world we live in.
And this is what really hammered my cross. He asserted that if you look at primates, you can see just by comparison that we probably are related to them at a genetic level. It bothered me because, for the weak of faith, this can be a compelling argument. Primates do look very similar to us. And some of them even go to church and speak up very well. Jesse Jackson. Al Sharpton. These are very devoutly religious men.
However, have you ever actually listened to them? From those guys, you’d half expect Jesus not to be white. Sure they mean well, and they try to preach the word, and its always nice to see congregations jubilant and jumping up and down to the word of God, but to assert that we are related to our purgatory bound soulless brethren was simply flying the face of what every good Christian believes. And I told this man so.
He did not seem to appreciate my argument, suddenly growing angry and shouting something about one of his parents being black. I tried to console him in the notion that if he gave his half-soul to Christ, he still had a 50/50 chance of getting into heaven. This didn’t have the desired effect of calming him down.
He left shortly after that. I told him I would pray for his half-soul. He told me to kiss his whole behind.
You try to be helpful, and this is the thanks you get.
Preaching the word is always trying, but I guess if it’s between frustration and a spear in the ribs, I can take a barb or two. LOL!!
God Bless You,
Brad G.
