My reply to some God spam - Democratic Underground

Jo March

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Thu Jun-16-05 02:51 PM
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My reply to some God spam

My friend sent me some God spam. She is a Dem but this just floored me. I hate this kind of stuff and I'm a Christian! When people use 9/11 to try and force religion on everyone, it makes me mad!

Also, I can't imagine being a non-believer and getting this kind of message. This is not the way to convince non-Christians that Christianity is a loving religion!!

The original email is at the end if you want to read it. It's barf-inducing.

My reply:

Christine,

I don't believe that we have to "allow" God anywhere. True Christians are told to carry God in their hearts. There is no - there can be no law against carrying God in your heart. To suggest that my God is so small that the law has to legislate Him into schools is blasphemy according to the teachings of the Bible. Madeleine Murray O'Hare had nothing to do with the prayer in school ruling.

9/11 did not happen because there isn't prayer in the schools or because government won't force religion upon us all. 9/11 happened because a few zealots decided that they would punish Americans because we don't believe the way that they do - in other words, Americans believe in freedom of religion and freedom of speech. Islamic fascists decided that Americans were a threat to them and their religion. They wanted one religion: theirs and theirs only.

I believe in the Bible. I am a Christian. I also believe in the Constitution - the one that I swore to uphold and defend from enemies both foreign and domestic when I enlisted in the US Army. The Bill of Rights affords me the right to worship or not worship as I see fit and it guarantees me that the government cannot tell me how and when I can worship. I love that about my country.

I love that fact that I can worship God and carry Him in my heart throughout the day. I love the fact that I can pray to Him in my closet as Jesus instructs all of us to do and not shout it from the streets as the hypocrites do. I love that I can sing Psalms to Him without forcing someone who doesn't believe in Him to march lockstep to what I believe.

I would rather live in a land where I can worship freely without government intervention than in a land where there is prayer in the schools and forced prayer everywhere else like Iran or Afghanistan under the Taliban.

I can understand the sentiment behind this - we should all love Christ and God and be better Christians but there is an underlying current in this message that scares me. I do not want government to regulate my religion. I don't want the schools to regulate my child's religion. If the government endorses religion, what makes us think that it will be the religion that we follow?

It is my job and the job of my church to teach my children right from wrong, not the government. It should stay that way.

From: My Dem friend
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:21 PM
Subject: Good reminder

In light of the many perversions and 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 the attacks on Sept. 11).

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!!