Food for Thought 

In light of the recent shooting in Massachusetts, 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 
neighbor as yourself. And we said, OK

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 said OK, 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. (There's a big difference between disciplining and touching, 
beating, smacking, humiliating, kicking, etc.) 
And we accepted their reasoning  !

Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if  "they" want to.
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 agreeing with them, we 
said it doesn't matter to me what anyone, including the President, does 
in their private lives, as long as I have a job, and the economy is good.

And then someone said let's print magazines with pictures of nude 
women and call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty 
of the female body. And we said we have no problem with that. 

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 they're entitled to their 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, 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, 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." 

Dear God, 
Why didn't you save the little girl in Michigan? 
Sincerely, 
Concerned Student 

AND THE REPLY 

Dear Concerned Student, 
I am not allowed in schools. 
Sincerely, 
God. 

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 everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have 
to believe, think, say, or do anything the Bible says. 

Funny how someone can say, "I believe in God" but still follow Satan 
who, by the way, also "believes" in God. 

Funny how we are quick to judge but not to "be" judged.

Funny how you can send a thousand '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 the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through 
Cyberspace, but the public discussion of Jesus is suppressed in the 
school and workplace !

Funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday, but be an 
invisible Christian the rest of the week.


Are you laughing? 

Funny how when you go to 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 to them 

Funny how I can be more worried about what "other" people think of me 
than what "God" thinks of me. 

Are you thinking? 

Pass it on if you think it has merit.  If not, then just discard it....no 
one will ever know what you did, for sure.