[Blindvet-talk] Fwd: Remarks from CBS Sunday Morning - Ben Stein

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Remarks  from CBS Sunday Morning - Ben  Stein 

I  Only hope we find GOD again before it is too  late ! ! 

The  following was written by Ben Stein and recited  by him on CBS Sunday  
Morning  Commentary.

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 
 celebrating 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 
Hurricane 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 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. 

Pass  it on if you think it has  merit. 

If  not, then just discard it... no one will know  you did.  But, if you 
discard this thought  process, don't sit back and complain about what  bad 
shape the world is in.  

My  Best Regards,  Honestly and  respectfully, 

Ben  Stein

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