Survival or Sainthood?

Darwin’s “sur­vival of the fittest” is mak­ing its rounds again. It is a shal­low and self­ish theme — worse yet — it is filled with all sorts of holes (the might­i­est crea­tures that roamed the earth all died out…so how can you talk of the sur­vival of the fittest?). Darwin’s “research” was grounded in a per­sonal bit­ter­ness toward the con­cept of any sort of cre­ator (due to the early death of one of his chil­dren). His research was any­thing but objective.

Sec­u­lar mate­ri­al­ism is the cyn­i­cal tone per­vad­ing much of the infor­ma­tion world these days. It is an Ostrich approach to life (if I can’t see it then it does not exist). It begs the ques­tion of “Why the sur­vival of the fittest if we all die any­way?” Who cares who wins all of the earth if we still all die? Sec­u­lar mate­ri­al­ism is futile, but it is touted as the only rea­son­able alter­na­tive. What a crock!

Christianity’s ver­sion of the sur­vival of the fittest is quite the oppo­site: It is found in the per­fec­tion of embrac­ing the imper­fect. It cham­pi­ons the cause of the weak­est. It embraces the sick, the lim­ited, and the incom­plete with deep com­pas­sion. Chris­tians praise the efforts and the exis­tence of the weak­est on the planet. We ele­vate the mar­gin­al­ized to saint­hood itself.

There is no good news in athe­ism. Athe­ism is a pro­moted despair sys­tem based in intel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual lazi­ness. It lacks imag­i­na­tion and can­not see six inches beyond its pseudo-intellectual nose.

The strongest do not sur­vive. They die too. True sur­vival of the fittest is a con­cept reserved for Chris­tians. It is a spir­i­tual motif. Those that con­nect with Jesus sur­vive into eter­nity. (Now that is a sur­vival worth the effort!) Phys­i­cal life on this planet is lim­ited — no mat­ter how healthy a per­son might be right now. If this is the only world for which you strug­gle, then you are an idiot. The “Dead End” sign of biol­ogy really does indi­cate the end of the road on planet Earth.

We live in a world of pre­tend. It is a Hol­ly­wood cul­ture — what­ever I pre­tend must be real. Let’s face it: pre­tend­ing is just pre­tend­ing. Real­ity works by an entirely sep­a­rate set of rules. Chris­tian­ity is rel­e­vant because it addresses the one thing that is ignored or ratio­nal­ized away by all other philoso­phies but is absolutely inevitable — death.

Give me a shot at saint­hood over phys­i­cal sur­vival any day. I’m in for the long haul. I am an eter­nal soul — not merely an evolv­ing animal.