I am sort of tired of this crap.

Over here James Wolcott references The Kung Fu Monkey's post about our president recommending that we teach Intelligent Design side by side with evolution.

Is there something in the water supply that makes the president bound and determined to make anyone with faith look stupid?

I told myself I was staying away from politics. I said I was going cold turkey and giving this shit up. I mean, I dropped a pack a day habit - I can quit politics right?

Apparently not.

(If I have said it once I have said it a hundred times.)

Look, I admit that I don't give two shits about evolution. It does not diminish my faith in the slightest to say that God used the process of evolution to get us where we are. And if he didn't? It also does not diminish my faith to say that He could have used another process. I just don't view it as important. Yes. I will happily say that through God all things are possible - But does that mean I accept any theory just thrown out there? Hmm. Well. No. No, it doesn’t. Really, I don't care about how man got here. If your view of God is small enough to not allow for the possibility that he did things differently that you might have liked - I'm sorry. I still don't see any good reason for this theory to be pushed from the White House bully pulpit.

Except, what I do see is a political move designed to both placate and infuriate. I see it as another trick to keep us fighting each other and not focused on what is happening in our country. Did we not notice the media focusing on the whole ID debate and not on Air America stealing money to pay for Al Franken? How about the small fact that the Total Information Awareness act has been renamed and is being pushed again?

I know. I'm a cynic. All I see in the President's Intelligent Design proclamation is a move designed to keep us fighting and make people of faith look like idiots. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe ID is a valid theory. I don't care. ID is not going to help us keep the country from disintegration. Evolution is not going to help us stave of disaster. The conflict over the two will only help to keep us at each other’s throats.

Maybe I am missing the whole point about the culture clash that is occurring here. To use the biblical allusions/quotations/references here - No man can serve two masters. He will love one and hate the other.

It may be that I am the fence sitter, unwilling to follow either side. How can I when I believe that both are wrong?

I don't think I am the fence sitter; I think I am just a man looking for the narrow path.

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