The Systematic Devaluing of positive Values

 

I hope this catches you the way it caught me!

 

In the light of the many jokes and perversions we send along to one another for a laugh, this is a little different:

 

This joke today is not intended to be a joke. It is not intended to be funny; it is intended to get you thinking.

 

A prominent American daughter was interviewed on the early show and Jane Clayson asked her, “ How could God let this happen?” (Regarding the attacks on September 11)

 

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 now He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand that He leave us alone?”

 

In the light of recent events…terrorist attacks, school shootings, etc, I think it started when Madeline Murray O’Hare (She was murdered, her body found recently) complained that she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. 

 

Then someone said that 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 that 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 is talking about. And we said OK.

 

Then someone said that teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. The school administrators said that no faculty member in this school is to 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 smacking humiliating kicking etc). And we said OK.

 

Then someone said, “Let’s let our daughters have abortions if they want and they won’t have to tell their parents.” And we said OK.

 

Then some wise school board member said, “Since boys will be boys and they are going to do it anyway, let’s give our sons all the condoms that they want so that they can have all the fun that they desire, and we wont have to tell their parents that they got them here at school.” And we said OK.

 

Then some of our top elected officials said that it doesn’t matter what we do in 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. And we said OK.

 

Then someone said, “Lets 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.

 

And then some one else took that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children and made them available on the Internet. And we said OK; they are entitled to free speech.

 

And then the entertainment industry said, “Lets make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence and illicit sex. Lets record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide and satanic themes.” And we said it’s just entertainment, it has no adverse affect, nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead.

 

Now we are 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, there class mates, 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”

 

It’s funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world is going to hell.

 

Its funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but we question what the Bible says.

 

Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through email and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding Our 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 the work place.

 

Are you laughing?