Our church has been showing and talking of apologetics recently, and we’ve been on a Creation vs. Evolution bit for a while. When we watched the video last night, I really just couldn’t help but notice how we sometimes brand and treat others as ‘the enemy.’

For me, I’m a Creationist, but then I’m not going to take the approach as some are by being upfront and telling you you’re going to Hell. I really just don’t like the stand some Christians have taken by saying evolutionists are so wrong (even though, really it is just a theory not a proven fact… like I said, my blog, my opinion, end of story), stupid, and a bunch of other adjectives. Like I said in another post, aren’t we taught to treat others with respect even if we don’t like them?

Really, this is a touchy subject and unless I get my words correct, I might just sound like a total prejudiced person, but it’s something I think a lot of people need to think about. I’m not trying to attack individuals but to shed light on how we treat those individuals.

A teacher of ours had brought up the point that some Christians believe in a Theistic evolution. He explained that some Christians just believe it because they’ve been taught it since they were ‘knee high to a grass hopper,’ and they really don’t know anything else because their local church hasn’t (yes, I did a double-negative, shoot me. I couldn’t figure out another way to word this) provided a solid foundation. If we, Christians, were really take to the stand of the gung-ho Creationists, we’d be branding them along with every other evolutionist as ‘the enemy’ when in reality they have an innocent ignorance of the whole thing.

I really don’t like the theory of Evolution and how it’s been taught in the public schools and generally accepted by the public, but I’m not going to go Jonathan Edwards on your tail and call you a cotton headed ninny muggins. Really, it’s not the position that a Christian should take part of - despising, calling names, nurturing bitterness and hate - just because someone believes differently. Christ tells us to love and respect others and to show them our light, not shove it down their throat.

The only thing that I can really do is just pray that through my attitude and actions, you can see Christ in me, and you’ll want what I have. You’ll want the relationship and the peace that Christ brings.

I watched a recent rally for Hilary Clinton on Fox News, and I was pretty astonished at how she handled herself. She said pretty demeaning and negatory things to the Bush administration (and don’t start, people, seriously. We’re not ever going to have an absolutely perfect President that everyone’s going to agree with. I like him, my blog, end of story) which was pretty expected considering she’s a Democrat and - see parenthesis.

Really, though. Do you want a candidate that’s going to outright insult a previous President? It wasn’t towards the administration as much as his character and actions. Do we need to revisit her husband’s two terms? Bush and the other candidates, congressmen, and elected officials haven’t said how bug-eyed she looks or that her husband was a total whore. Oh nooo… Heaven forbid.

But honestly. Forget candidates, political parties, elections… Hilary Clinton doesn’t have good sportsmanship conduct. If she acts smug, cocky, arrogant and insults an opponent… Aren’t we supposed to frown upon that? Don’t our, oh, I don’t know… Parents, teachers, coaches teach us to behave properly and act like a good sportsman even if we don’t like the opponent?

If she shoots her mouth off now… In the Americas… Against a previous President… What’s to stop her if (and God forbid, I hope this doesn’t happen) she becomes the President and still shoots her mouth off at other officials? What’s to say we have a new world conflict because she hated Ehud Oldmert’s haircut and apparel? Or what if she thinks Gordon Brown and England’s use of the pound and metric system is archaic?

Seriously. If she’s going to be mean and… a total witch in our home country and against opponents (who, again, haven’t said a thing about her and her husband), she could cause a conflict if she gets elected. Really, I just don’t want a person like that to represent me - one who can’t be a good sportsman, insulting, and disrespectful towards previous elders.