I found this email interesting.......

[TBONEZ0295]

In light of the many perversions and jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke, it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.


Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding the attacks on Sept. 11).


Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.


And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"


In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.


Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school . the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.


Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.


Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.


Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."


Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.


Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.


Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.




Are you laughing?






Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they WILL think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.



Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in!

 

[freelancc]

:yup

 

[djv]

They had a survey once on most used quick responces and or come backs. It was in one of our most read publications MAD. They had in the running such things as Dam It, GFUS, GF, YSOB, But the winner was God Dam It. Followed by God Dam You. Maybe he got the message. I might be off a touch on those for it was about 6/7 years ago. But the last two were hard to forget.
And yes there were more and I cant remember some.

 

[Marco]

The problem is simply that people are not taught PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.....

no one is ever accountable for thier actions, it was someone else who did it........parents say it happens to someone else's children, cause I taught mine differently.....

We pissed a lot of time and money away on whether or not prayer should be said in school when the real answer and solution was......If you want your child to say a prayer in school then send them to the religious school of your choice. Plain and simple.

Problem with religion is once your God says something is ok, no reasoning whatsoever can overtake religion. If you read the suicide notes left behind by the terrorists behind 9-11 you will clearly see that they felt absolutely religiously correct for thier actions to come and they weren't going to some form of hell for doing so. They were going to be reunited in some form of heavenly bliss........

Personal responsibility says you just don't fly a loaded passenger plane into a skyscraper.

I just wish I had a nickel for everybody on this planet who has died as a result of some needless religious war or from the results of someone who made a decision in life based on what thier God or religion told them to do.

Start teaching personal responsibility and accountability if you want to see a positive difference in the world's future, forget about religion.