Dear God:
Why didn't you save the school children at ...
Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96
Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97
Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97
West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97
Stamps, Arkansas 12/15/97
Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98
Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98
Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98
Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98
Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98
Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99
Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99
Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99
Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99
Santee, California 3/5/01 and
El Cajon, California 3/22/01?
Sincerely,
Concerned Student
Reply:
Dear Concerned Student:
I am not allowed in schools.
Sincerely,
God
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How did this get started....
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Let's see, I think it started when Madeline Murray
O'Hare complained she didn't want any 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 that says "thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not
steal, and love your neighbors as yourself,"
And we said, OK...
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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. And we said, an expert should know what he's
talking about so we won't spank them anymore...
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Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our
children when they misbehave. And 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. And we accepted their reasoning...
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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, that's a grand idea...
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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, that's another great idea...
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Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't matter what we
do in private as long as we do our jobs. And we said, it doesn't matter what anybody,
including the President, does in private as long as we have jobs and the
economy is good...
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And someone else took that appreciation a step further and published
pictures of nude children and then stepped further still by making
them available on the Internet. And we said, everyone's entitled to free speech...
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And the entertainment industry said, let's make TV
shows and movies that promote profanity, violence and illicit
sex... And let's record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder,
suicide, and satanic themes...And we said, it's just entertainment and it has no
adverse effect and 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 don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to
kill strangers, classmates or even themselves.
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Undoubtedly, if we thought about it long and hard enough, we could
figure it out. I'm sure it has a great deal to do with...
"WE REAP WHAT WE SOW,"