Dear God:

Why didn't you save the school children at...

Virginia Tech

Amish Country, PA

Columbine High School

Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96

Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97

Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97

West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97

Stam P, Arkansas 12/15/97

Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98

Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98

Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98

Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98

Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98

Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99

Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99

Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99

Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99

Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99

Santee, California 3/5/01, and

El Cajon, California 3/22/01?

Sincerely,
Concerned Student

Reply:

Dear Concerned Student:

I am not allowed in schools.

Sincerely,
God

How did this get started?

Let's see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare complained that she didn't want any prayer in our schools.

And we said okay.

Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in school...the Bible that says "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt not steal; and love your neighbor as yourself."

And we said okay.

Dr. Benjamin Spock said that we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem.

And we said "An expert should know what he's talking about.  So we won't spank them anymore."

Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave.  And the school administrators said no faculty member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be sued.

And we accepted their reasoning.

And the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex.  And let's record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes.

And we said, "It's just entertainment.  It has no adverse effect, and nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience?  Why they don't know right from wrong?  And why doesn't it bother them to kill strangers, classmates, or even themselves?

Undoubtedly, if we thought about it long and hard enough, we could figure it out.

I'm sure it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW".

You got something to say about this?  (And remember what Joan Rivers said: "If you can't say something nice, let's hear it!")

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