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I received this email from someone and thought I would post it here for others to read!
*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
you shall not murder you 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
its 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
cyber space, 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!