Laus Deo




 The following was supposedly written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS
 Sunday Morning Commentary, Sunday, 12/18/05 and if it was or was not it is still interesting to consider.

 Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating
 heart: I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on
 the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits
 and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They
 never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change
 my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they
 so important?
 I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I do not care at all about
 Tom Cruise's wife.
 Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a
 subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are.
 If this is what it means to be no longer young. It's not  so bad.
 Next 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 Nick and Jessica 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 Nick and Jessica
 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 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 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.
 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?
 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.



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