Johnny’s Blog

I was forwarded this email that was supposedly said by Ben Stein.  Sounds interesting.

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 celebrati ng 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 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 (Dr  Spock’s son committed suicide).  We said an expert should know what he’s  talking about.  And we said OK.

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.