Fw: Something to think about

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>Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 07:34:41 -0400

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>I got something like this a while back but this one is different in many

>ways.

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>In light of the many perversions and jokes we send along to one another

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>a laugh, this is a little different:

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>This joke today is not intended to be a joke, it's not intended to be

>funny,

>it's intended to get you thinking.

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> Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane

>Clayson,

>in a question pertaining to the Sept 11th attacks, asked her, " How could

>God

>let something like this happen? " Anne Graham gave an extremely profound

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>insightful response. She said " I believe God is deeply saddened by this,

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>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.

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>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...terrorist

>attacks,

>school shootings, etc., I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare

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>was murdered, her body found recently) complained

>she didn't want 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

>says

>thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as

>yourself. And we said OK.

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>Then Dr. 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

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>expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.

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>Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our

>children

>when they misbehave. The school administrators said no faculty member in

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>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, touching, beating,

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>smacking, humiliating, kicking, etc.). And we said OK.

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>Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want,

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>they won't even have to tell their parents. And we said OK.

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>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 OK.

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>Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't matter what we do

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>private as long as we do our jobs. Agreeing with them, we said it

>doesn't

>matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in

>private as long as I have a job and the economy is good.

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>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 OK.

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>And then someone else took that appreciation a step further and

>published

>pictures of nude children and then further again by making them

>available on

>the Internet. And we said OK, they're entitled to free speech.

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>Then the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies

>that

>promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. 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, 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

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>don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill

>strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

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>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

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>simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the

>world's going to hell.

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>Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the

>Bible

>says.

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>Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like

>wildfire,

>but when you start sending messages regarding God, people think twice

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>sharing.

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>Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through

>cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and

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>workplace.

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>Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on

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>your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what

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>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.

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>Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not, then just discard it...

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>one will know you did except God. 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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>Jay A. Hansen, Vice President

>CWCapital

>15375 SE 30th Place, Suite 290

>Bellevue, WA 98007

> Ext. 101; (fax)

>Email: jhansen@...

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