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Billy Graham's daughter, Anne, was interviewed on the Early Show, and
when discussing the attacks on September 11, Jane Clayson asked her
"How could God let something like this happen?" Anne Graham gave a
profound and insightful response:

"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 ‹ terrorist attacks, school shootings, etc.
-- I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered,
her body found recently) 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.

Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our
children when they misbehave. The school administrators said no
faculty member in 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, 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 even have to tell their parents. And we said OK.

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.

Then some of our top elected officials said 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 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.

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. 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.

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 sow¹.

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 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?"

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Jahnu wrote:
> Funny how we believe what the newspapers say
> but question what the Bible says.

Ethvert intelligent menneske stoler da ikke
mere på aviserne end på biblen! Ethvert intelligent
menneske indtager en kritisk rationelt skeptisk
holdning til enhver informationskilde.

> Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles
> pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion
> of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Hvad med grove vulgære og obscene artikler omkring gud
der farer igennem cyberspace? Fx. som den jeg nu
svare på?

> Are you laughing?"
Yep. Det er alt sammen ateisterne skyld er det ikke?
hvis alle blot troede på gud så ville der ikke være
nogen 11/9, der ville ikke være nogen oversvømmelse
af Dresden, og social demokratiet ville begynde med
at opføre sig ordentligt, istedet for alt den infight,
og fisk ville holde op med at lugte så grimt?

Er det dit argument?

"I believe the Penguins living on the northpole are deeply
saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been
telling the Penguins to get out of our schools, to get out
of our government and to get out of our lives."

Livet uden Pingviner er hårdt at leve, hvis vi blot alle
kunne tro på Pingvinerne, så vile det straks blive så
meget bedrer, og alt børneporno på internettet ville
straks forsvinde, get real!

Btw. bemærk venligst at det er Pingviner med stort P, det
er jo ikke blot ordinære pingviner der er tale om her,
men de Pingviner der lever under Nordlyset på nordpolen.

--
Mvh. Carsten Svaneborg
http://www.softwarepatenter.dk where you do not
want to go in the future!