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GOOD CHRISTMAS TREE (Sobering Thought)

 

    Subject: Re: Fw: GOOD CHRISTMAS TREE     (Sobering)

 

    Apparently the  White House referred to Christmas Trees as 

    Holiday Trees for the first time these past few years,  which 

    prompted CBS presenter, Steven Levy, to present this piece

    which I would like to share with you. I think it applies just as 

    much to many countries as it does to America.

     I Only  hope we find GOD again before it is too  late!!
 
     The  following was written by Steven Levy and recited by him 

     on CBS  Sunday Morning Commentary.

 

    My  confession:  

   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.    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. Steven 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

(Dr. Spock's son committed  suicide). We said an expert should

know what he's talking about..  And we said okay..

   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.        Funny isn't it!