[CS-FSLUG] Wake Up Call

[Fred A. Miller]

            Dear God: 
            Why didn't you save the school children at ?. . 

            Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96 

            Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97 

            Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97 

            West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97 

            Stamps, 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 

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            Reply: 

            Dear Concerned Student: 

            I am not allowed in schools. 

            Sincerely, 

            God 

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            How did this get started?... 

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

            And we said, OK... 

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            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 
neighbours as yourself," 

            And we said, OK... 

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            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. 

            And we said, an expert should know what he's talking about so we 
won't spank them anymore.. 

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            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... 

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            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, that's a grand idea... 

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            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, that's another great idea... 

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            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 we said, it doesn't matter what anybody, including the 
President, does in private as long as we have jobs and the economy is 
good.... 

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            And 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, everyone's entitled to free speech.... 

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            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 and it has no adverse effect 
and nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead... 

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            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, classmates or even themselves. 

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            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," 

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            Pass it on if you think ithas merit! If not then just discard 
it...but if you discard this thought process, then don't you dare sit back 
and complain about what bad shape this world is in.

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