Thought 78
Pushed around?
Apparently the White House
referred to
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS
Sunday Morning Commentary. My
confession:
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't
think
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from
that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to
worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that
I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are
wondering where these celebrities came from and where the
In light of the many 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.
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 a few years ago) 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 okay..
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.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of
us than what God thinks of us. My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
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