Friday, December 10, 2010

A Lesson on Evangelization versus Religious Discrimination

I walked in the office today while there was some major discussion among my coworkers about evolution versus the Genesis creation story. One said, "Genesis is not real because anyone with common sense knows that evolution is a fact." The other pointed out that evolution is not real because we were created in the image and likeness of God (not in the image and likeness of monkeys). Honestly, no one really knows except the Maker of the universe. Bottom line is there is no winning with these types of arguments. I'm glad I wasn't in that room when it all started. I just knew I wasn't going to hear the end of it. So I just said, "We are all entitled to our beliefs, and the workplace is certainly not the place to discuss them." Whatever happened to Lingkod's slogan, "Evangelizing the workplace"? Reason says, "Welcome to the United States."