Religous Philosophy, Politics, and Jesus

I'm finally home from a long summer on the road. It was a great summer! It was long and tiring, but it's always worth it when you see on the final night all the kids that stand to say publicly that they made some kind of life changing decision. My last conference was in Oregon so there was the long drive from Oregon State back to Joplin that I was not looking forward too. The first day wasn't too bad, it went by fairly quickly and uneventfully. On Sunday morning our air conditioner went out while we still had all of Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri, in the middle of the summer, with all the heat and humidity. I know I'm having a god sweat when sweat is rolling down my legs. So Sunday I'm driving and need to stop to get something cool to drink and to re-fill our ice chest with ice that melted very quickly. This stop was perfect because it was at a Super Wal-Mart and there were tons of other trucks. It might as well have been an offical truck stop. I was pulling out of the lot and I turned on the CB radio and the truckers were having a political debate (debate might not be the correct word, but I'll give them some credit) It was very interesting and somewhat comical. They got to talking about how if there were no government we'd all end up killing eachother. So me, wanting to have some fun and join the conversation, thought I'd throw in some knowledge. My comment was this: "If we all loved Jesus the world would be a better place". This started a very humorous discussion about 1) if Jesus created Satan or not, 2) why Jesus lets bad things happen, and 3) if Jesus was a man or a woman. When something good was said I'd throw in an "Amen Brother" in the best trucker voice I could. It was really interesting to hear what some of these guys views were. Some of them were pretty messed up, but some of them were right on. And I was very excited that I started a religious debate at a truck stop. It was the highlight of my long, non-AC day in the truck. The religious discussion though didn't last too long and was quickly followed by a session of dirty joke telling. Which was also kind of funny.