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Ärende: Good Ole Ben
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ROSS CASSELL said to ALL ...

RC>The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS
RC>Sunday Morning Commentary:

Ah yes, Ben "I was one of Nixon's flacks and Nixon could do no wrong" 
Stein-

Ben Stein: "Bush is going to go down in history as one of the great 
peacemakers"

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512160009

RC>I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think
RC>Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.

Except Christians are *NOT* "getting pushed around for being Christians" 
here in the US.
Those who want to cram their version of Christianity up everyone's ass 
are the ones being told to knock it off.

RC>people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed
RC>around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that
RC>America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the
RC>Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Maybe because God and/or Jesus aren't even MENTIONED in that same 
Constitution?

RC>Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane
RC>Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this Happen?"
RC>(regarding Katrina)

RC>Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She
RC>said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but
RC>for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get
RC>out of our government and to get out of our lives.

RC>And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out.
RC>How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if
RC>we demand He leave us alone?"

Yeah, "God took away the magic shield!"
Got news for Anne Graham: There were disasters long before there were 
even humans on the American continent.

And there will be disasters in the future.
Look up the 1811 New Madrid earthquake.
Then look at how that same area has grown.

RC>In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.
RC>I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered,
RC>her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our
RC>schools, and we said OK.

Bullshit.
She wanted *MANDATORY* school-led prayers and Bible lessons stopped.
And they were.

And guess what! Kids still do pray in school.
But they do it on their own, not according to what the teacher or the 
other faculty tell them to.

RC>Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when
RC>they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and
RC>we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed
RC>suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about and
RC>we said OK.

Dr. Spock's son killed himself because he was a drug addict.

RC>Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why
RC>the world's going to hell.

It's easy to "trash" something that is a sick fantasy.

RC>Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the
RC>Bible says.

I don't believe what the Moonie Times says.

RC>Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like
RC>wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord,
RC>people think twice about sharing.

Bullshit.

RC>Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely
RC>through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the
RC>school and workplace.

Again, bullshit.
Prostyltizing is looked down on.
Civil discussion of faith is talked about all the time.

RC>Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many
RC>on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or
RC>what they will think of you for sending it.

Only a Bible-thumping asshole would forward this message.

RC>Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us
RC>than what God thinks of us.

Because other people are real.
"God" is not.

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