Schools Without God
--Author Unknown
Billy Graham's daughter, Anne, was being interviewed on the Early Show by
Jane Clayson, regarding 9/11/2001. She was asked, "How could God let
something like this happen?" Ms. Graham gave an extremely profound
and insightful response. She said, "I believe that 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 that He is, I believe that 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?"
This form of rejection seemed to begin when Madeline Murray O'Hare
complained she did not want any more prayers in our schools. And we said,
"OK." (Side note: Madeline was murdered, and her corpse was
found recently)
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 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." And we said, "an expert should
know what he's talking about," so we said "OK." (Side note:
Dr. Spock's own son committed suicide)
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 said, "OK." (Side note: There's huge
difference between disciplining and touching, beating, smacking,
humiliating, kicking, etc.)
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." And agreeing with them,
we said, "it doesn't matter to us what anyone, including the
President, does in private as long as we have a job and the economy is
good."
And 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 stepped further still by making them
available on the Internet. And we said, "OK... they're entitled to
their free speech."
And then 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, it has no
adverse effect, and nobody takes it seriously anyway," so 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. More than likely, if we think
long and hard enough about it, we can figure it out. I think it has a
great deal to do with... "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."
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