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Message:
Dear God:
Why didn't you save the school children at...
Virginia Tech 4/16/07
Amish Country, PA 10/2/06
Columbine High School 4/20/99
El Cajon, California 3/22/01
Santee, California 3/ 5/01
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99
Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99
Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99
Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99
Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99
Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98
Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98
Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98
Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98
Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98
Stam P, Arkansas 12/15/97
West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97
Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97
Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97
Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96
Amish Country, PA 10/2/06
Columbine High School 4/20/99
El Cajon, California 3/22/01
Santee, California 3/ 5/01
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99
Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99
Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99
Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99
Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99
Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98
Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98
Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98
Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98
Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98
Stam P, Arkansas 12/15/97
West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97
Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97
Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97
Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96
Sincerely,
Concerned Student
Concerned Student
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Reply:
Dear Concerned Student:
I am not allowed in schools.
Sincerely,
God
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The forward goes on to cite Madeline Murray O'Hare, Dr. Benjamin Spock, the entertainment industry and parental compliance as definte contributers to this lack of religion in schools and moral inadequacies of our youth.
I was fortunate enough to go to Christian school my whole life and had parents that were strict in the sense that I was raised not watching excessively violent, sexually promiscuous movies or similar music. But how much of my generation was raised in such an environment? The answer is not much...and I agree with the assumption that some of that violent, sexually promiscuous drug culture has resulted in atrocious and horrific deaths of Americans.
I am one of the thousands of people in this country that has been directly affected by one of those deaths. When I was a mere freshmen in college I ran in the same circles as a young man who we lost at the Virginia Tech tragedy.
I refuse to believe that this was a single incident (proof we also see in the list above that) by one deranged young man. Would all these young people who commit these crimes have acted in such manners if they had had different influences in life? This we'll never know! But what we do know it that violence in schools has become significantly more prevalent in the past couple decades. After God was banned from our conversations and after children were being raised in these "no-discipline-kum-bay-yah-everything-is-yours" households.
I've mentioned before my generation's sense of entitlement and I think this fits right into the picture. We've always been entitled to watch what we want, listen to what we want, play with what we want. own what we want, and in general get anything and everything we want. Everything from the new version of Halo to "getting rid" of those that bully us in high school.
My generation has a lot to learn...about compassion, about consequences, about love and about hate, about violence, sex, and drugs, and about right and wrong.
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The forward goes on to cite Madeline Murray O'Hare, Dr. Benjamin Spock, the entertainment industry and parental compliance as definte contributers to this lack of religion in schools and moral inadequacies of our youth.
I was fortunate enough to go to Christian school my whole life and had parents that were strict in the sense that I was raised not watching excessively violent, sexually promiscuous movies or similar music. But how much of my generation was raised in such an environment? The answer is not much...and I agree with the assumption that some of that violent, sexually promiscuous drug culture has resulted in atrocious and horrific deaths of Americans.
I am one of the thousands of people in this country that has been directly affected by one of those deaths. When I was a mere freshmen in college I ran in the same circles as a young man who we lost at the Virginia Tech tragedy.
I refuse to believe that this was a single incident (proof we also see in the list above that) by one deranged young man. Would all these young people who commit these crimes have acted in such manners if they had had different influences in life? This we'll never know! But what we do know it that violence in schools has become significantly more prevalent in the past couple decades. After God was banned from our conversations and after children were being raised in these "no-discipline-kum-bay-yah-everything-is-yours" households.
I've mentioned before my generation's sense of entitlement and I think this fits right into the picture. We've always been entitled to watch what we want, listen to what we want, play with what we want. own what we want, and in general get anything and everything we want. Everything from the new version of Halo to "getting rid" of those that bully us in high school.
My generation has a lot to learn...about compassion, about consequences, about love and about hate, about violence, sex, and drugs, and about right and wrong.
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Great post. Back when I was a TV reporter, I covered school violence on a couple of non-lethal situations. Later, as a PR guy, I was involved with the aftermath of two school shootings - one at Case Western Reserve University and the other was a major school shooting on a Native American reservation in northern Minnesota (several kids were killed in that case). It was stunning to interview the kids who heard/saw their friends being gunned down at the school in Red Lake, Minnesota. I remember thinking to myself that it didn't feel as if God was present - based on the hollow/vacant/lost expressions on the survivors' faces. Perhaps this note explained why.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean god is not allowed in schools? Kids can pray anytime that they want to in school.
ReplyDeleteGod has been taking out of the Public Schools and anyone who doesn't recognize it, doesn't understand what having God in your life means. I doubt any of the kids who pulled out weapons to kill others have strong ties to faith at home. Their families failed them and so did the schools. Faith and a belief in a higher being means that even when "no one is looking, Someone is looking". The notion of accountability to someone bigger than ourselves has been lost on many young people or we won't be having this discussion.
ReplyDeleteif you believe and trust in God then you know God is everywhere,
ReplyDeleteno one can keep him out of a building,
He is in your heart and soul,and the ideal that it is the schools fought for the killing of innocent kids is hypercritical of your faith.
Do you believe he is in control or not.?
We all need to do more than blame it on tolerance and understanding of others.
Sam of course I believe he is in control, but the point is that the general public is not being taught that anymore.
ReplyDeleteI don't actually think that God is not "allowed in our schools", He is capable of anything and everything. He can "go" anywhere He pleases, but the point is that the horrific acts are not inspired by Him.
I just pointed out that America's youth are learning how to "live" and "be a good people" from liberal leaning schools and popular culture rather than focusing on being God-centered and adhering to Bible principles.