dakota190 Posted May 8, 2007 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 640 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 4 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/14/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted May 8, 2007 WOW, WHAT A WAKEUP! 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 Stamp, 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 El Cajon, California 3/22/01 Blacksburg, VA 4/16/07 ? and many more... Sincerely, Concerned Student ----------------------------------------------------- Reply: Dear Concerned Student: Sorry, I am not allowed in schools. Sincerely, God -------------------- -------------------------------------- How did this get started?... ----------------- 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. ------------------ 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... ----------------- Dr. Benjamin Spock said We shouldn't spank our children When they misbehaved 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.. ------------------ 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... ------------------ Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won't even have to tell their parents. And we said, that's a grand idea. ------------------ 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. And we said, that's another great idea... ------------------ 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.... ------------------ 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.... ------------------ 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. ------------------ 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. ------------------ 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakleaf Posted May 8, 2007 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 214 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 7 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/29/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/01/1963 Share Posted May 8, 2007 i know and i feel the same way..i keep praying about these issues every day and hope that they reverse these laws or at least some of them. ..........oak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabowd Posted May 8, 2007 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 112 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3,489 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 13 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/28/2004 Status: Offline Share Posted May 8, 2007 I'm sorry, but I do not agree with the mindset behind this. It's as if God's hands were tied because we removed prayer out of schools? He didn't intervene to save students from suffering because they hand out condoms at school? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LossForWords Posted May 8, 2007 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 857 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/07/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/04/1981 Share Posted May 8, 2007 I tend to agree...though the little ditty up there encourages emotions and lots of us want to say, "amen"...I'm still stuck on the top part that has God replying that he wasn't there during those school shootings because he wasn't "allowed." I think every one has free will and the choices we make sometimes are no where near the right choices...but God's still there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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buckthesystem Posted May 9, 2007 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 1,706 Topics Per Day: 0.26 Content Count: 3,386 Content Per Day: 0.51 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/12/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/10/1955 Share Posted May 9, 2007 i know and i feel the same way..i keep praying about these issues every day and hope that they reverse these laws or at least some of them. ..........oak Here I go playing the antagonist again, I just can't resist it. It seems a bit of a "cop out" to say "..... and hope that THEY reverse these laws ......" For a start who is "they". It does nobody any good just "hoping that somebody else will lobby to reverse destructive legislation. Everybody in a country has responsibility for the laws of that country. Afterall "politicians" are charged with making laws, but the people employ the politicians. They are supposed to be your representatives, you pay them to be that. According to what I have been reading one in four people in America work, in one way or another, for the goverment. That is a lot of civil servants. If a law is really stupid and destructive, it shouldn't be enforced. Civil servants are people, with - presumably - the ability to reason. If the law of the land is unacceptable to you, do not just sit back, wringing your hands and say "I hope they have a change of heart", get up and do something about it. You have to start with something specific, e.g. if you don't like the fact that there is no prayer in schools, send your child to a Christian school or homeschool them. If you don't want your daughters to have abortions arranged by the school, without your knowledge, bring up your daughters in such a way that that will never happen. Eventually (well in theory anyway) if 99.9% of girls are repulsed by the idea of abortion, the schools will have to change their stance. Going back to the op: That is a good piece of writing, but the first thing I thought while reading it was, "but that is not the childrens' fault". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apothanein kerdos Posted May 9, 2007 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 331 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 8,713 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 21 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/28/2004 Status: Offline Share Posted May 9, 2007 I'm sorry, but I do not agree with the mindset behind this. It's as if God's hands were tied because we removed prayer out of schools? He didn't intervene to save students from suffering because they hand out condoms at school? Exactly. It never crosses our mind that these events occur because man is simply evil...and Christians have dropped the ball severely on reaching out to the culture. It's always the culture's fault, never our own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyAngeL Posted May 9, 2007 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 22 Topic Count: 155 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 7,464 Content Per Day: 1.01 Reputation: 8,810 Days Won: 57 Joined: 03/30/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/12/1952 Share Posted May 9, 2007 Very sad and true. I remember when Madalin Murry,OHare got prayer removed from schools. Both my mom and dad were angery and sad. Then one day Ms OHare dissapeared along with her son an daughter. All were found murdered. That too is very sad. I weep because I know where they all are and there is no hope for them. I remember seeing her on the Mike Douglas show. He had her and Billy Graham on one day. In those days Dr. Graham would be able to lead in prayer. She looked as though she was going to explode. How can one person have so much hate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakota190 Posted May 9, 2007 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 640 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 4 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/14/2006 Status: Offline Author Share Posted May 9, 2007 I'm sorry, but I do not agree with the mindset behind this. It's as if God's hands were tied because we removed prayer out of schools? He didn't intervene to save students from suffering because they hand out condoms at school? that is not the point at all. if you follow the progression of events that we as americans and as christian americans, allowed to occur in the lives of our youth. the falling away that took place. it is as God removes his hand from over this country which was founded on faith in God. no matter how the revisionists want to rewrite our history, this country was founded on God and his principles. we did not require everyone to be christian, but we did not allow our faith to be denied to us or our descendents as far as we could see, either. removing prayer from the schools was only one of the opening moves against us. it has progressed to a far worse point now. anything christian is considered bad and anything ANYONE else wants is considered good, especially if it is anti-christian. you can find this in biblical prophecy. in the end times, what is good will be considered evil and what is evil will be considered good. buckthesystem, please tell me where it blamed the children for what has happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angels4u Posted May 9, 2007 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 55 Topic Count: 1,664 Topics Per Day: 0.20 Content Count: 19,764 Content Per Day: 2.38 Reputation: 12,164 Days Won: 28 Joined: 08/22/2001 Status: Offline Share Posted May 9, 2007 WOW, WHAT A WAKEUP! 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 Stamp, 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 El Cajon, California 3/22/01 Blacksburg, VA 4/16/07 ? and many more... Sincerely, Concerned Student ----------------------------------------------------- Reply: Dear Concerned Student: Sorry, I am not allowed in schools. Sincerely, God -------------------- -------------------------------------- How did this get started?... ----------------- 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. ------------------ 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... ----------------- Dr. Benjamin Spock said We shouldn't spank our children When they misbehaved 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.. ------------------ 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... ------------------ Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won't even have to tell their parents. And we said, that's a grand idea. ------------------ 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. And we said, that's another great idea... ------------------ 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.... ------------------ 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.... ------------------ 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. ------------------ 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. ------------------ 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" sad but true, I hope you don't mind if I email it to some friends? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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