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Earlier today I got a PM that the sender wanted to know what I thought of the restrictions placed on users here at IH. My response was a long winded way of telling them that "you reap what you sow" then while reading my email today I saw this...

Sad But True, please read this and think about what Anne Graham is saying. If you don't have the time to read it now, print and read it later. Something for us to think about.

In light of the many perversions and jokes we send along to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This joke today 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 Sept. 11 ). 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, missing children in massive numbers 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. Also think about the recent Liberal California 9th Circuit Court decision on the Pledge of Allegiance. We let it go thereby saying it's 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. It must be bad for kids to read. We let it go thereby saying it's 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. We let it go thereby saying it's OK.

Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. The school administrators said no faculty member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be sued (there's a big difference between disciplining or touching, beating, smacking, humiliating, kicking, etc..) We let it go thereby saying it's OK.

Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won't even have to tell their parents. We let it go thereby saying it's 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. We let it go thereby saying it's 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. We let it go thereby saying it's OK.

And then someone took that appreciation of the nude body a step further and published pictures of nude children and then further again by making them available on the Internet. We let it go thereby saying it's OK, they're entitled to free speech.

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. 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 children to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. We let it go thereby saying it's OK.

We have our borders wide open for anyone to come here, take what they need and leave. What happened to the days when foreigners actually filled out papers, waited for approval to come here and then did. We do not grow cocaine or heroin in this country and yet it is being grown and imported into this country by three of the four nations that owe us enough money to wipe out the national debt. We give welfare, food stamps, medical aid and an education to those that don't even belong here and let Americans starve and pay higher taxes than anywhere else in the world. But hey; We let it go thereby saying it's OK.

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.

Are you laughing?

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