> >And we said OK -- 
> >> 
> >>In light of the many perversions and jokes we send along to one another 
> >>for a laugh, this is a little different-- 
> >> 
> >>This 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 September 11th). 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>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?" 
> >> 
> >>Imagine that for even a moment someone can suggest to take God out of the 
> >>"Pledge of Allegiance" . . . and the worst part, people jumped on the 
> >>bandwagon. And we said OK. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>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 shouldn't 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. 
> >> 
> >>Then someone said teachers and principals shouldn't discipline our 
> >>children when they misbehave. The school administrators said no faculty 
> >>member in this school should touch a student when they misbehave because 
> >>we don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be sued. 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. And we said OK. 
> >> 
> >>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. They're entitled to free speech. And we said OK. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>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. 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 we push God asside and think nothing about him until we're in 
> >>desperate need and then we find our selves asking for His help again. 
> >> 
> >>Funny how we take so many things in life for granted until they're gone . 
> >>. . . 
> >> 
> >>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. 
> >> 
> >>Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it . . . no 
> 
> >>one will know you did. 
> >>