Sweetberries
09-02-2002, 05:17 PM
I Just got this from my friend today.
In light of the many perversions and jokes we send
along to one another for a laugh, this is a little different:
This joke today is not intended to be a joke, it's
not intended to be 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 shall not kill, thou shall 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.
Then someone said teachers and principals better not
discipline our
children when they misbehave. The school
administrators said no faculty
member in this school better touch a student when
they misbehave because
we don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't
want to be sued
(there's a
big difference between disciplining, touching,
beating, smacking,
humiliating, kicking, etc.). And we said OK.
Then someone said, let's let our daughters have
abortions if they want,
and they won't even have to tell their parents. And
we said OK.
Then some wise school board member said, since boys
will be boys and
they're going to do it anyway, let's give our sons
all the condoms they
want so they can have all the fun they desire, and
we won't have to tell
their parents they got them at school. And we said
OK.
Then some of our top elected officials said it
doesn't matter what we do
in private as long as we do our jobs. Agreeing with
them, we said it
doesn't matter to me what anyone, including the
President, does in
private as long as I have a job and the economy is
good.
Then someone said let's print magazines with
pictures of nude women and
call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for
the beauty of the
female body. And we said OK.
And then someone else took that appreciation a step
further and published
pictures of nude children and then further again by
making them available
on the Internet. And we said OK, they're entitled to
free speech.
Then the entertainment industry said, let's make TV
shows and movies that
promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. Let's
record music that
encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic
themes. And we said
it's just entertainment, it has no adverse effect,
nobody takes it
seriously anyway, so go right ahead.
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.
In light of the many perversions and jokes we send
along to one another for a laugh, this is a little different:
This joke today is not intended to be a joke, it's
not intended to be 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 shall not kill, thou shall 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.
Then someone said teachers and principals better not
discipline our
children when they misbehave. The school
administrators said no faculty
member in this school better touch a student when
they misbehave because
we don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't
want to be sued
(there's a
big difference between disciplining, touching,
beating, smacking,
humiliating, kicking, etc.). And we said OK.
Then someone said, let's let our daughters have
abortions if they want,
and they won't even have to tell their parents. And
we said OK.
Then some wise school board member said, since boys
will be boys and
they're going to do it anyway, let's give our sons
all the condoms they
want so they can have all the fun they desire, and
we won't have to tell
their parents they got them at school. And we said
OK.
Then some of our top elected officials said it
doesn't matter what we do
in private as long as we do our jobs. Agreeing with
them, we said it
doesn't matter to me what anyone, including the
President, does in
private as long as I have a job and the economy is
good.
Then someone said let's print magazines with
pictures of nude women and
call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for
the beauty of the
female body. And we said OK.
And then someone else took that appreciation a step
further and published
pictures of nude children and then further again by
making them available
on the Internet. And we said OK, they're entitled to
free speech.
Then the entertainment industry said, let's make TV
shows and movies that
promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. Let's
record music that
encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic
themes. And we said
it's just entertainment, it has no adverse effect,
nobody takes it
seriously anyway, so go right ahead.
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.