Tracy's Talk 另一種演奏

 

  Only  hope we find GOD again before it is too late!  !


The following  was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday  Morning Commentary.

My confession:

I  am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish.  And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call  those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees...  I don't feel threatened.. I don't feel discriminated  against.. That's what they are, Christmas trees.

It  doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas'  to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready  to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows  that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy  time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a  manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach  house in   Malibu ..  If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the  Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I  don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I  don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being  Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and  tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where  the concept came from, that America is  an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the  Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my  throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did  the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we  aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess  that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot  of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from  and where the   America we  knew went to.

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.�
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 a few years ago)  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  okay..

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 yet?

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 how we can be more  worried about what other people think of us than what God  thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has  merit.

If not, then just discard it... no one will  know you did. But, if you discard this thought process,  don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world  is in.

My  Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,

Ben  Stein