Subj: From CBS Sunday Morning





SUBJECT: Remarks from CBS Sunday Morning, A Must Read If
You Are Human!

Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late!!
Description:

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him
on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my
ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when
people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I
don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what
they are, Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry
Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready
to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are
all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't
bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key
intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche,
it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I
don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.
I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed
around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America
is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution
and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come
from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship
God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old,
too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities
came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many 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 Hurricane Katrina). 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 a few years ago) 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 We said an expert should
know what he's talking about. And we said okay. (Dr. Spock's son
committed suicide.)
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 yet? 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.
My best regards, honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein







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