As of right now I only see three candidates that I believe are capable of holding the office of President of the United States. This has nothing to do with ideology, I’m not ready to pick on that yet, this is based purely on credentials and integrity. Two are Republicans and one is a Democrat.

 I like Bill Richardson. I disagree with him on many of the issues but I believe his life experiences have left him most qualified of any of the candidates to be president. I’m really surprised he is running behind Edwards, Obama and Clinton in the polls. None of these Democratic frontrunners have anywhere near the experience in running a government as he does. None of them have the diplomatic experience he does and none of them have the policy making experience he does. Bill Richardson is a remarkable man. He also strikes me as a man of integrity.

Of the Republicans you have Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee who both have demonstrated skills in running government and both man appear to be men of integrity. Out of the Republicans, who more has experience running government than these two men? Gulliani may come close but running city government, even a city government as large as New York City does not fully prepare one for running a country.

I like Huckabee a little better than Romney, though and if I was voting in the Republican Primary today I think I’d choose Huckabee. He’s a FairTax supporter, you know. I think I like Richardson the best of the three, though. I worry a little about a Dominionist bent with Huckabee.

This past week I’ve been talking to some friends about God. One of my friends wanted to know how I rationalized other gods to my own. It’s fairly easy. I’m a monotheist. There is only one God so the other gods he’s speaking of must just be different names for my God. He wasn’t very satisfied with my answer. Other religions worship their God differently than I worship my God. They have different creation stories and such. How could they be my God by a different name.

I understand his confusion. He’s an atheist and doesn’t believe in any gods. I can appreciate that he doesn’t believe in a supernatural being and this leads to his confusion in my answer. He does believe that there are things more important than just living his life to the fullest so there is something bigger than him, something he must serve. While I believe in God as a supernatural being I also believe that your god is who you serve. Micah 6:8 tells us exactly what my God requires from me to serve Him. I must act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with my God. From what I’ve gathered from my Hindu friends, that’s what Brahman requires from them in order to reach Nirvana. Same God, different names, different rituals, different stories.

Still, I believe the important part isn’t the name of the god or the ritual or the stories. The important part is how you serve God. I believe we serve God by serving His creation and it only really counts is that our motivation for doing so is our love of God. Call God what you will, just love Him and serve Him and you are on the right path. To me, that’s all what believing in Christ is all about and everybody has to serve somebody.