Recently I received an e-mail from one of my baby sisters, asking me to “pass this on”. It IS something I will pass on to you and hope you can understand it. When I wrote on an issue recently about the building of a Mosque on Ground Zero, there was on toxic response that proved my point, and one that supported me. I like to have both!
Here is the e-mail Fran sent me.
“CBS and Katie Couric et al must be in a panic and rushing to reassure the White House that this is not network policy.
Keep this going around the globe. Read it and forward every time you receive it. We can’t give up on this issue.
Andy Rooney says:
I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December. I don't agree with Darwin, but I didn't go out and hire a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his Theory of Evolution.
Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be endangered because someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game. So what's the big deal? It's not like somebody is up there reading the entire Book of Acts. They're just talking to a God they believe in and asking him to grant safety to the players on the field and the fans going home from the game.
But it's a Christian prayer, some will argue. Yes, and this is the United States of America and Canada, countries founded on Christian principles. According to our very own phone book, Christian churches outnumber all others better than 200-to-1. So what would you expect -- somebody chanting Hare Krishna?
If I went to a football game in Jerusalem, I would expect to hear a Jewish prayer.
If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad, I would expect to hear a Muslim prayer.
If I went to a ping-pong match in China, I would expect to hear someone pray to Buddha.
And I wouldn't be offended. It wouldn’t bother me one bit. When in Rome...
But what about the atheists? Is another argument.
What about them? Nobody is asking them to be baptized. We're not going to pass the collection plate. Just humor us for 30 seconds. If that's asking too much, bring a Walkman or a pair of earplugs. Go to the bathroom. Visit the concession stand. Call your lawyer!
Unfortunately, one or two will make that call. One or two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do. I don't think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake the world’s foundation.
Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while our courts strip us of all our rights. Our parents and grandparents taught us to pray before eating, to pray before we go to sleep. Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing. Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease praying.
God, help us. And if that last sentence offends you, well, just sue me. The silent majority has been silent too long. It's time we tell that one or two who scream loud enough to be heard that the vast majority doesn't care what they want. It is time that the majority rules! It's time we tell them, "You don't have to pray; you don’t have to say the Pledge of Allegiance; you don't have to believe in God or attend services that honor Him. That is your right, and we will honor your right; but by golly, you are no longer going to take our rights away. We are fighting back, and we WILL WIN!"
God bless us one and all...Especially those who denounce Him, God bless America and Canada; despite all our faults We are still the greatest nations of all. God bless our service men that are fighting to protect our right to pray and worship God.
Let's make 2010 the year the silent majority is heard and we put God back as the foundation of our families and institutions. And our military forces come home from all the wars.
Keep looking up.”
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Benjamin Franklin
I'm confused. Mr. Rooney says he doesn't agree with evolution. Now, I was raised to be a good Christian, and the Bible tells me that God created Adam from nothing. Then he created Eve using Adam's rib. Now, I was also raised to be a good student, and my science teachers told me that Man evolved from lower life forms. So who am I supposed to believe? Because if I believe my teachers, then I'm not being a very good Christian. Yet, if I believe the Bible, I'm ignoring everything I learned in school. So, what should I do DelBloggolo?
-#1 son
I liked this article.
# 1 son/# 2 nephew -
Consider this, why couldn't both be right? Do they have to be mutually exclusive of one another? Or do we humans just think it must be either/or rather than the more likely possibility that they were 2 mutually occuring events we are yet unable to understand?
ss-i-l & s-aunt
p.s. to # 1 son/#2 nephew
As you get older, you will have only more questions and fewer answers regarding many things.
S-Aunt,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you referring to the theory of "Intelligent Design"? That is to say that God created the single cell organisms from which men eventually evolved? Because I certainly find this theory plausible. I was however, taking issue with Mr. Rooney saying he doesn't "agree with Darwin." As we know, Darwin believed that man evolved from lower life forms. Now, this is in direct opposition to the Adam and Eve story. The Adam and Eve story states that God created man out of nothing and then created woman from the man's rib. With this, there can be no middle ground. Either you believe Adam and Eve really happened, or you believe Man evolved from lower life forms. On one hand we have scads of scientific evidence in the form of fossils that prove that we evolved from lower life forms, on the other hand we have a story that has been passed down from generation to generation. My question for Del Bloggolo is: Which should I believe -- the science or the story?
-#1 Son
I problem #1 Son is: Why do you raise the issue with Mr. Rooney? IF YOU HAVE A SET OF BELIEFS, THEN YOU STICK TO THEM, YOU DON'T NEED TO JUSTIFY THEM, ESPECIALLY TO YOURSELF, IF YOU TRULY BELIEVE one way or another.
My problem is that, by choosing one, I am rejecting a whole set of principles I was taught to believe in. I find that troubling. It makes me wonder if there are other things I have been taught over the years that aren't really true. And who should I be trusting more -- the Church or School?
#1Son
nephew # 2
Yes that Intellegent Design thing. I actually came up with that on my own before the Pope did.
Science seems to be able to explain how many things work(ed). I have yet to hear a good scientific explanation for WHY.
By the way, please be assured that I respect whatever you choose to believe in as the truth as well as your right to modify your beliefs anytime in the future.
love,
s-aunt
S-Aunt,
And I respect yours as well. Like I said, I find the intelligent design thing plausible. It's the Adam and Eve story that I have the most problems with. It just doesn't compute based on everything I've learned about evolution. It sounds more like an allegory than a true event.
Love,
#2 Nephew
I believe that most biblical scholars think that most of the old testament is somewhat fabricated.
science and religion HAVE to be mutually exclusive. disregarding fundamentalists (who take the bible word-for-word) -- all christians pick and choose what verses of the bible fit their PERSONAL moral tastes.
people quote "turn the other cheek" as evidence that christ was peaceful and in favor of forgiveness.
however, here are some passages that christians like to forget that christ said...
then jesus said "If you believe Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?" John 5:45. -- everything moses believes is what jesus believes.
"Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!" ..........Psalms 137:9
"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling..." (God speaking through Samuel). ...........1 Samuel 15:3
these are all, clearly, prayers for pro-FORCED-abortion on non-believers.
now, if we were to choose to believe in "turn the other cheek" and disregard these passages that are in favor of abortion, how do we know which passages are right?
then, in that light, how do we know that the adam and eve story isn't right? again, it's so easy to pick and choose.
either way, it's not worth having an argument over. the bible was written over a period of 4,000 years by several different people.
all early religions were attempts at explaining the unexplainable. back then, we didn't have the scientific data and tools available to explain things the right way, so anytime we had a flood or an earth quake, it wasn't the shifting tectonic plates but god's wrath at work.
religion is entirely not conducive to science. not in the least bit.
and our country isn't founded on christian values. our country was founded by free masons. the free masons at the time favored science and reason over faith and they had direct experience with the horrors that can come about when religion and politics mingle. our nation was founded on the FIRST FIVE commandments -- a universal morality that was around long before moses.
and the religious scholars who believe the old testament was wrong but everything jesus said was right stop pretty short of converting to socialism.
because the first book to ever advise us to work "each according to his ability, each according to his needs" was acts of the apostles. they neglect that christ said that it's easier for a camel to pass through the head of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven.
so, people could either put their money where their mouths are and fight for christian communism, or just admit that the entire bible is an out-dated piece of allegory at best and that nothing beyond common-sense morality holds any truth to it whatsoever.
number 2 son ^^
my brain is starting to hurt big time so peace to all of you and goodnight.
ss-i-l and s-aunt
oops, i meant to say that the country was founded on the SECOND five commandments lol.
n2s
then, in fairness to believers, scientists don't know what came BEFORE the big bang. the scientific community is generally in unanimous agreement that the big bang happened, and it can be proven with basic physics.
what they don't know is HOW it happened or what "nothing" looked like before the big bang happened and created "something".
we've known that the universe is expanding, but the universe is everything that exists, so it isn't expanding "into" anything and because of this it doesn't have a definite shape.
this is what causes some scientists to believe that something intelligent created the universe. it makes sense because the universe is BASED on order and scientific truths. deists believe that anytime there is order, something intelligent must have created it. therefore, with the order present in the universe right now, it's possible that something intelligent designed it.
HOWEVER, these scientists could be playing the god card because they haven't yet figured out the aforementioned questions (what things looked like before the big bang, etc). these things could be answered through science one day.
so that just brings us to the point that humans will be quicker to run to the idea of a higher power than try to scientifically figure things out for themselves. it's like how the earthquakes were considered "god's wrath" before we could actually figure out what was really causing it.
n2s
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