And another thing...

Something to consider.

Cousin Jean sent an email the other day, and I thought it rang so true. This is not all of it, but the part that had me nodding my head.

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.

All of this is true, I think the tree huggers and politically incorrect police have screwed the world. There is no happy medium for anything anymore. I blame Oprah.

Every denomination thumps the bible down and says, "This is the word of God" and they follow it to the letter. When you consider it was around 500AD before they started translating the bible into different languages, you might come to the conclusion that someone might have missed something in that translation.

Maybe the guy who translated the psalms didn't like how one of them sounded and did some editing. Can you really trust any human to be completely objective. We are talking about religion here.

"It says here, God thinks lizards are way cool and that we should let them rule the world."

"That's retarded, Bob, scratch that out!"

Before you pick up the bible to read it, first say to yourself. God is a pretty decent guy. He is not up there screwing with us. He gave us free will and brains.

"God sent down Katrina, How could he do such a thing." He also sent meteorologists who told them a month in advance that it was coming, to get the fuck out of the way.

People need to use their head.