Subject: Remarks from CBS Sunday Morning
(everyone should read!)
Read it and do with it whatever you feel like
doing. Have a blessed day,
The following was written by Ben Stein and
recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning
Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors
was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit
when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees,
Christmas trees.. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel
discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry
Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting
ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it It shows
that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time
of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene
on display at a key intersection near my beach house in
Malibu . If people want a crèche, it's just as fine with me as is the
Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't
think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.
I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting
pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came
from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in
the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
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 America we
knew went to.
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 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 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 ***** 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.
Are you laughing yet?
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.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
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