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Mega Über-Meister
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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.
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 pa** freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school
and workplace.
Funny how someone can be
so fired up for Christ
on Sunday, but be an
invisible Christian
the rest of the week!
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.
Pa** 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.
"Good friends are like stars.........You don't always see them, but you know they are always there! | |
fadednotgone
Debater
5948 points | | That is a good point. Very true as well. |
squirt_aka_casey
Über-Minister
17542 points | I hate to sound like an anti God person here, but really, in all honesty, I feel as though it is people like her, who use God as mask for unfair judgement, and insesitive comments about how those who do not beilieve EXACTLY the way she does (mind you, her father was one who was notorious for stealing money that was supposed to be used for the church) and truthfully, it's funny how we have the worst terrorist attacks once a president who is condeming to other cultures enters office. Funny how we suffer the worst hurricane in history after we wage an unjust war in God's name...... these things could very well be a result of so called "turning our backs", but they could also bery well be a result of using His name in the ultimate vainity...... to discrimate against others.
As I recall, we do not judge other, for it is God who judges all. |
fadednotgone
Debater
5948 points | squirt_aka_casey said:
I hate to sound like an anti God person here, but really, in all honesty, I feel as though it is people like her, who use God as mask for unfair judgement, and insesitive comments about how those who do not beilieve EXACTLY the way she does (mind you, her father was one who was notorious for stealing money that was supposed to be used for the church) and truthfully, it's funny how we have the worst terrorist attacks once a president who is condeming to other cultures enters office. Funny how we suffer the worst hurricane in history after we wage an unjust war in God's name...... these things could very well be a result of so called "turning our backs", but they could also bery well be a result of using His name in the ultimate vainity...... to discrimate against others.
As I recall, we do not judge other, for it is God who judges all.
I don't think that sounds anti God at all... but I think that both of these posts, hers and yours, are very true. People do use God's name to justify their own misjudgements. People use his name in vain to feel like what their doing is good for eveyone and to make themselves feel better. Perhaps these are punishments for the misdeeds of others, but perhaps they aren't. No one can say for sure why bad things happen, but I don't think anyone can blame God for soemthing that someone else has done. |
squirt_aka_casey
Über-Minister
17542 points | fadednotgone said:
I don't think that sounds anti God at all... but I think that both of these posts, hers and yours, are very true. People do use God's name to justify their own misjudgements. People use his name in vain to feel like what their doing is good for eveyone and to make themselves feel better. Perhaps these are punishments for the misdeeds of others, but perhaps they aren't. No one can say for sure why bad things happen, but I don't think anyone can blame God for soemthing that someone else has done.
Truthfully, I don't believe that God had anything to do with these events, well, not while they were happening..... I think that these event need to happen. We may not like it, but it is nature, and sometimes, well, God can't be there to save us, and truthfully, we don't we shouldn't expect Him to be. God and religon is ment to guide, and use as a learning tool. I agree... children NEED disapline!!! We need to realize right from wrong!!! I think tho, sometimes we take it too far. I appriciate other veiws, and truely believe that everyone is correct in thier beliefs, and that you should just accept that.... but that's what's great about this place, you all seem to think the same way about it  I  you guys!!!! |
ladym
Mega Über-Meister
3766 points | 
You have some very insightful words there.
Thank you for putting them up for us to read.
I do agree with her,(Billy Grahams daughter) we seem to blame god when things go wrong in the world or in our lives, but, when things go right who do we thank??.........God??
or ourselves?? or others??
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baby_grace
Über-General
725 points | a very very good point...thank you for posting this. I've been blessed by it.  |
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