An "innocuous" right wing chain email ? - what's your take ?

[steve2470]

I quote in its entirety, the entire email that was forwarded to me only because I'm on her "jokes list":


"Message: Dear God:



Why didn't you save the school children at ????.


Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96


Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97


Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97


West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97


Stamps, Arkansas 12/15/97


Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98


Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98


Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98


Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98


Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98


Littleton,Colorado 4/20/99


Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99


Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99


Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99


Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99


Santee, California 3/5/01 and


El Cajon, California 3/22/01?


Sincerely,


Concerned Student


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Reply:


Dear Concerned Student:


I am not allowed in schools.


Sincerely,


God


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How did this get started?...


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Let's see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare complained she didn't want any prayer in our schools.


And we said, OK...


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Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in school, the Bible that says "thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbors as yourself,"


And we said, OK...


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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.


And we said, an expert should know what he's talking about so we won't spank them anymore..


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Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. And 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.


And we accepted their reasoning...


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Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs.


And we said, it doesn't matter what anybody, including the President, does in private as long as we have jobs and the economy is good...


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And someone else took that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children and then stepped further still by making them available on the Internet.


And we said, everyone's entitled to free speech....


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And the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence and illicit sex... And let's record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes...

And we said, it's just entertainment and it has no adverse effect and nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead...


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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, classmates or even themselves.


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Undoubtedly, if we thought about it long and hard enough, we could figure it out. I'm sure it has a great deal to do with...


"WE REAP WHAT WE SOW,"


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Pass it on if you think it has merit! If not then just discard it...but if you discard this thought process, then don't you dare sit back and complain about what bad shape this world is in


http://www.inlibertyandfreedom.com/Flash/Think_It_Over.swf"





one last block of quote from the above website:
http://www.inlibertyandfreedom.com/sl2.htm


"<snip>

Links to sites that will
TAKE AWAY YOUR FREEDOM

A brief description of the sites and their plans for YOUR future

www.un.org
See Agenda 21 here
www.aclu.org
www.cpusa.org
www.millionmommarch.com
www.glsen.org
www.aol.com
www.vpc.org
www.ashcroftgunwatch.org
www.cphv.com
www.jointogether.org
www.bradycampaign.org
World Heritage Center
http://www.unesco.org/whc/nwhc/pages/home/pages/homepage.htm
Ramsar Treaty http://www.iucn.org/bookstore/ramsar.htm
Protected Areas program http://wcpa.iucn.org/wcpainfo/aboutppa.html
Earth Charter http://www.earthcharter.org/draft/charter.htm
Sustainable Development http://iucn.org/themes/sui/index.html
IUCN More global regioning
http://iucn.org/amman/content/resolutions/index.html
Wildlands Project http://www.twp.org/
Join Together http://www.jointogether.org"

[BattyDem]

1. "Links to sites that will TAKE AWAY YOUR FREEDOM"

They forgot to put Whitehouse.gov on that list! :P

[LoZoccolo]

2. They mention the ten commandments in that letter...

...but isn't one of them about using God's name in vain? Should they really be putting words in God's mouth?

[aePrime]

3. Dear God

Why didn't you save the 7 people shot in the Wisconsin Church?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/13/wisconsin.shootings/

or the Texas church?

http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/tex-s17.shtml

or the Atlanta church?

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20031006-122416-7170r.htm