The La Rouche kids came out to play again, but with a slightly different approach this time. They were standing in the middle of campus singing choral music. I recognized it to be Bach so I stopped to listen. They asked me if I sing. Mmm... I wasn't about the join them in their "fight", but I told them I do, somewhat. And they only had two altos, so I could have stuck around, but oh well. Just as I was turning to leave, one of them cornered me and weighed me down with a stack of inappropriately named "literature". The she started talking about the election and how the fight has just begun.
Girl: Fundamentalist Christians are going down! Those "fundis" are the cause of the problem! Are you a "fundi"?
Yours Truly: Is it possible to be a Christian and not a fundamentalist, in your opinion? By the looks of it, I guess not. Is it possible to be a Christian without having the title "fundamentalist" or "radical" as a prefix?
Girl: Bush is an extremist and he sees the world in black and white! He is trying to impose his religion on the world, and we think that's wrong!
Me: Oh. So why are you guys singing "Jesu Meine Freude"? (She stopped again. But then she started talking about deficits and disorders, or maybe that was my psychiatrist, who knows...?)
Anyway, I walked away unharmed. But I had a kind of disturbing revelation, maybe someone can explain this to me. If Christians are so against the "survival of the fittest" theory, why practice that precise idea in our economy? If you are poor and uneducated, you will suffer. You work 35 hour weeks at Wal-Mart and raise your kids without health insurance. You are unfit to survive.
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The answer is that the economy has nothing to do with how life has come to be. I can say that im a christian and be a professional football player. Just because im christian doesnt mean im not going to believe in the "survival of the fittest" in terms of football. If a team doesnt have a good offense and defense, thats their loss. The same with the economy. If a class doesnt work hard to get well paying jobs and what not, then thats not the presidents fault, its simply the classes. If a football team doesnt work hard to be better than every other team in the league, than thats that teams fault, not the league itself. I dont know if im going anywhere with this but all im trying to say that survival of the fittest is a phrase used to explain evolution which is a "theory" that hasnt even been proved yet, which is completely against christianity.
This is why the bible says (im generalizing) that the perfect president would be Christ. Bush is christian but hes also human.
Also, in regards to this, "Just because im christian doesnt mean im not going to believe in the "survival of the fittest" in terms of football," shouldn't the fact that you are a Christian show in everything you do? Shouldn't it show through your lifestyle? Let me add that I am not exactly pro-Bush, but I am more anti-Kerry. I would be much more pleased with Bush if he showed the kind of love he should through his lifestyle rather than emphasize to the nation how much he prays.
Thats the mystery of life...if bush becomes like what u say through his lifestyle, people will still find different reasons to complain about him. I guess we just have to live with it.
I think that Christians are against Evolution, but not necesarilly against "Survival of the fittest." Although the observation is used to back the theory of evolution, it will stand, whether evolution is proven or not. From what i see, the theory of evolution contradicts the patterns of nature as nothing advances beyond it's current state when left alone. On the contrary, it decays. This demolishes the argument for evolution, but "Survival of the fittest" still stands. So, "S.o.t.f." survives(ouch) without evolution, but the latter can not without "S.o.t.f."...Hopefully, that shed some light on the conversation. Ultimately, what makes someone a Christian is their faith in Jesus, as opposed to their view on how man became who he is after God initially created, whatever the heck one believes that creation was(modern man or ancestral atomoidnuclearelectroniggas).
"Ultimately, what makes someone a Christian is their faith in Jesus, as opposed to their view on how man became who he is after God initially created." Regarding that, I would like to point out that I didn't say (or at least I think I didn't say) that this situation make President Bush any less Christian. I am simply pointing out that I don't believe this nation's economy reflects the ideals on which our government was based. I think we have turned our backs on America and what she stands for.
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