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PLEASE READ ALL OF IT
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. (I sent it to everyone on my list. Will you?)
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 we can be more worried about what other people
>think of us than what God thinks of us.

now is the time to say I disagree with just abuot everythin written up there, im atheist and i dont believe bibles should be read in schools.

Answer 1

Hurricanes just as bad as katrina have happened whether or not kids were praying in school. Madeleine was probably killed by a "Christian" that thought he/she was doing "god's" work. The "god' that you're saying we should teach to our kids. People killed people in the name of the 'god' Anne Graham wants us to beat into kids (that aren't hers) minds. Lots of Christians commit suicide. Whether they were spanked and disiplined as kids or not. And maybe Dr. Spock was using his mistakes with his own son. How dare anyone point blame when they do not know of what they speak. This is an evangelist trying to get more money to her cause of more pain and suffering in the name of her "god".

Answer 2

If modern "secular" culture is responsible for Hurricane Katrina, how do you explain all the terrible natural and human-engineered disasters (the San Francisco earthquake and the Holocaust, for example) that took place when the United States was so-called "Christian"? God gave human beings free will and alllows the world to work according to certain natural laws. Hurricane Katrina would not even have been a disaster if human beings hadn't been living in a place where levees were necessary to keep the ocean out. Bad stuff happens. It's part of life.

Answer 3

I really believe that if our Country doesn't get back to "one nation under God" that God will turn his back on our nation. God and anything to do with Christianity is being destroyed in this country. One Organization that is trying to stop the injustice is the ACLJ. The American Center for Law and Justice. You can look it up on the Internet or under Jay Sekalow. My mother heard one pastor on TV say that if God doesn't do something about the US he will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah. Pretty sad. And, I'm not laughing. I pray for our nation.

Answer 4

LOL! You're right, it IS funny. Well ...everything except for the nonsense about how Katrina was caused by the government not forcing non-Christian kids to pray to Jesus. I suppose even that's kind of funny when you consider how asinine it is, and realize some people actually believe crap like that.

Answer 5

If you believe that "god" sent Katrina because he is upset about us telling the church to get out of our schools,than I don't need your god. All I know of him is his petty and cruel nature from Noah to Katrina. I live in a better world with reason and logic. You live under a mythical tyrant who kills innocents on a whim.

Answer 6

Yeah, and it's funny that Billy Graham's organization gives financial support to all kinds of preachers, including Graham's son, but they won't give financial support to Ann Graham Lotz because she's a WOMAN who preaches.

Answer 7

I agree with some things, but I have to disagree with the idea that all this is something new. Murder, war, poverty, disease, natural disasters. . .these are as old as the human race, and not the result of recent disregard for the Almighty.

Answer 8

I received that same "forward".

I believe Anne Graham Lotz hit the nail right on the head!!!!

Answer 9

What an idiot she is.

"If you don't blindly accept my beliefs look what will happen to you!"

She lives in fear. Then she drives her big SUV home to her million dollar mansion wondering why the people in Africa are poor and the weather is intensifying.

Answer 10

She makes some very good points. If nothing else, it makes you think seriously about what the world has become like.