Dear God
by JJ Oakley and Linda Black 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 American God's Reply... Dear Concerned American: I am not allowed in schools.
Sincerely, God
How did this get started?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won't even have to tell their parents. So we said, that's a grand idea.
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. So we said, that's another great idea.
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. So 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.
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; its just entertainment, and it has no adverse effect, and nobody takes it seriously anyway... so go right ahead. Now we're asking ourselves, why our children have no conscience, and why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, classmates, or even themselves?
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," As you walk up the steps to the Capitol Building which houses the Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers, and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view; It is Moses and the Ten Commandments! As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door, and as you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit; A display of the Ten Commandments!
There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C. James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our Constitution" made the following statement "We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
Patrick Henry, a true patriot and Founding Father of our country said, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ." Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777. Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies. Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law.... an oligarchy.... the rule of few over many. The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said, "Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers."
How, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?
As we approach the New Year, let us ponder for a moment on the direction that our wonderful country is heading, and let us try to elect officials to represent us who believe in the principals of our founding fathers. JJ Oakley with Contributing Research Editor Linda Black |
