Reply #102: My reply to a fundie chain letter from my sister [View All]

[Oreo]

This guy is right on. There is no difference between the Islamic Extremists and the Christian Extremists IMO. I'm a Christian but to me God is forgiving and loving. Warning: this will raise your blood pressure!

Subject: Food for Thought!

In light of the many perversions and 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 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, 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.

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.

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!!

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My reply:
I find this email completely offensive. 150,000 people died in Asia because we don't spank our kids? A woman got murdered because she doesn't want prayer in school? Almost 3,000 people died in NY and DC because God let it happen?

How about the fact that Americans are now detested more and more worldwide every day? How about the fact that our president led us into a horrid and unjustified war that has killed 10's of thousands of innocent Iraqis...children... Mothers... Fathers... Sons. They are people too. How about the national guardsmen and women that are being forced to stay in the military even though their obligation to the military is finished? Do you ever think that this war may lead to your kids and mine fighting in a broader war that only happened because Bush decided he needed to have Iraq's oil. What about that violence? What about the depleted uranium that will poison our troops and the people of Iraq for years to come?

Take a step back and look at the way the media has grown. If a fly dies in eastern Romania, we know about it. Take a minute to think that in "the good old days" we weren't force-fed 24-hour news. The problem is that when crime occurs (and I'll admit there's some really sick stuff out there) you know about it instantly. You don't think stuff like this happened in the idyllic 50's? I'm sure there were plenty of sick stories from the "golden age" that would be pasted all over the headlines today if they happened again.

You are more than free to believe what you want but don't send anything like this to us again.
Please do not reply to this trying to convert me or tell me I'm going to hell. You've had your say with email and I just had mine.

Thank you.