Where is God?
"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 that He is, I believe that He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand that He leave us alone?"

In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. Let's see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body was found recently) complained she didn't want any prayer in our schools, and we said OK.

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, 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). And we said, an expert should know what he's talking about so we said OK.

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. (There's big difference between disciplining and touching, beating, smacking, humiliating, kicking, etc.) And we said, OK.

Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won't even have to tell their parents. And we said, OK.

Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and they're going to do it anyway, let's give our sons all the condoms they want, so they can have all the fun they desire, and we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school. And we said, OK.

Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs. And agreeing with them, we said it doesn't matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in private as long as I have a job and the economy is good.

And then someone said let's print magazines with pictures of nude women and call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty of the female body. And we said, OK.

And then someone else took that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children and then stepped further still by making them available on the internet. And we said OK, they'r entitled to their free speech.

And then 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 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."

"Dear God, Why didn't you save the little girl who was killed in her classroom?" Sincerely, Concerned Student...
AND THE REPLY "Dear Concerned Student, I am not allowed in schools". Sincerely, God.

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 everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to believe, think, say, or do anything the Bible says.
Funny how someone can say "I believe in God" but still follow Satan who, by the way, also "believes" in God.
Funny how we are quick to judge but not to be judged.
Funny how you can send a thousand '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 the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but the public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday, but be an invisible Christian the rest of the week. Are you laughing?
If you discard this thought process, then don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in!
            Anne Graham


There are three ways to believe in god:
There is no god
There is a callous God who doesn’t care about humanity
There is a benevolent god who behaves in mysterious ways that we could not begin to understand. We might see evidence of this in the love in another’s eyes, or the laughter in an innocent child’s eyes.

It doesn’t matter if God in his heaven is a Catholic or a Protestant God, or the God of the Hindus. What matters is something deeper and older and more powerful than any such image. It is a concept of goodness based on the affirmation of life, the turning away from destruction, from the perverse, from man using and abusing man. It is the affirmation of the human and the natural.
 

If you believe that God made Satan, you must realise that all Satan’s power comes from God and that Satan is simply God’s child, and that we are God’s children also. So, really, there are no children of Satan.
 

An Apology to the Devil
It must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the story. God has written all the books.
 

Corpus Christi Carol
He bare hym up, he bare hym down;
He bare hym into an orchard brown.
In that orchard ther was an hall,
That was hangid with purpill and pall.
And in that hall ther was a bede;
Hit was hangid with gold so rede.
And yn that bed ther lythe a knyght,
His wowndes bledyng day and nyght.
By that bedes side ther kneleth a may,
And she wepeth both nyght and day.
And by that bedes side ther stondith a ston,
‘Corpus Christi’ wretyn theron.
            Written in the 1500’s
 

If the world is an unjust world, then is God therefore an unjust God?
 

Satan hasn’t a single salaried employee; the opposition employs a million.
 

A Hymn to God the Father
Wilt Thou forgive that sin where I begun,
Which was my sin, though it were done before?
Wilt Thou forgive that sin through which I run,
And do run still, though still I do deplore?
When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done,
For I have more.

Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I have won
Others to sin and made my sin their door?
Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I did shun
A year, or two, but wallowed in a score?
When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done,
For I have more.

I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun
My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;
Swear by thyself that at my death Thy Son
Shall shine as He shines now, and heretofore;
And having done that, Thou hast done,
I fear no more.
            John Donne
            1572 – 1631
 

If you look too long in the sun, you will lose your sight, just as those who live too long in the darkness will gradually lose theirs. Mortals were not meant to live solely in sun or in shadow, but in both. Both have their perils, if misused, and both have their rewards.
 

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
            Gaiman and Pratchett
 

We can embrace love, it's not to late.
Why do we sleep, instead, with hate?
Belief requires no suspension
To see that Hell is our invention.
We make Hell real; we stoke its fires.
And in its flames our hope expires.
Heaven, too, is merely our creation.
We can grant ourselves our own salvation.
All that's requires is imagination.
 

Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
 

This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks for a sign, and yet no sign shall be given to it.
            Luke 11:29
 

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
            Peter O'Toole
 

On the Wings of a Prayer
Just close your eyes and open your heart
And feel your worries and cares depart,
Just yield yourself to the Father above
And let Him hold you secure in His love…
For life on earth grows more involved
With endless problems that can’t be solved—
But God only asks us to do our best,
Then He will “take over” and finish the rest…
So when you are tired, discouraged and blue,
There’s always one door that’s open to you—
And that is the door to “The House of Prayer”
And you’ll find God waiting to meet you there…
And “The House of Prayer” is no further away
Than the quiet spot where you kneel and pray—
For the heart is a temple when God is there
As we place ourselves in His loving care.
When we pray in His name “Thy will be done”—
And the burdens that seem too heavy to bear
Are lifted away on “the wings of a prayer.”
            Helen Steiner Rice
 

I turned to speak to God about the world's despair, but to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
            Robert Frost
 

Are religions and paranoid obsession just an attempt to make sense of a universe too large and too random for human comprehension? Is it just a way to determine the meaning of life?
 

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary.
 

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
            Albert Einstein
 

We are all blind men in a cave, looking for a candle that was lit 2000 years ago.
 

There is no one truth. All beliefs are of equal value.
 

Faith may be defined as that which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
            Bram Stoker (Dracula)
 

 

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