Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on
the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like
this Happen?"
(regarding Katrina) 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.
I got this in an email and I think that it is funny. I will talk more about it later. But I am curious to see what you guys think.
-roguemind
Thanks for the compliment on Fatality's set!
I don't want to delve too deeply into what I think right now. You don't want me too either. This is a loaded topic. How is it that preachers kids are ending up with bastard children, and preachers are caugth having affairs. Humans are human, we can't help it and everybody needs to step off their pedestals and soap boxes and figure out how to teach our children to have cross cultural norms and values that teache them to treasure their time alive and respect other people.
Aslo we need to remember that LIFE HAPPENS !!! People die, are born etc. There have always been floods and disasters. Hell there has always been war.
How dare these christians prefess in believing in a '3 O' god, and then have the audacity to say he's being a gentleman and stepping out. Give me a break !
that's my penny for now