Send the ACLU a CHRISTmas Card

A couple days ago I got this fwd and thought it quite a "clever"! I'm sure it has been circulated before but had to share in case there are those out there that haven't seen it.

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Christmas cards. This message is coming early so that you can get ready to
include an important address to your list.

Want to have some fun this CHRISTMAS? Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD this
year.

As they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this
holiday, we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN card to brighten up their dark, sad, little world..

Make sure it says "Merry Christmas" on it.

Here's the address, just don't be rude or crude. (It's not the
Christian way, you know.)

ACLU
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York , NY 10004

Two tons of Christmas cards would freeze their operations because they
wouldn't know if any were regular mail containing contributions. So spend
44 cents and tell the ACLU to leave Christmas alone. Also tell them that
there is no such thing as a " Holiday Tree". . . It's always been called a
CHRISTMAS TREE!

And pass this on to your email lists. We really want to communicate with the
ACLU! They really DESERVE us!!

For those of you who aren't aware of them, the ACLU, (the American Civil
Liberties Union) is the one suing the U.S. Government to take God, Christmas
or anything Christian away from us. They represent the atheists and others
in this war. Help put Christ back in Christmas!

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When get a fwd message I usually take a glance at it, have a good laugh if its particularly funny. Read it if its particularly interesting or discard it if its none of the above. I find that it rare to come across a forward that really makes me ponder something. When I received the message below I couldn't stop thinking about it. It is simple, and cheesy but it really made me start to wonder about the repercussions of excluding religion from so much of our society.

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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

Sincerely,
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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