Some report our nation is 82% "Christian", but the polls are showing more like 30/70 [religious-right vs liberal-left] and "a house divided shall not stand", so I'm expecting a Humpty-dumpty in the near future. Have you prayed about your vote?

We wouldn't want the government to tax our churches or compel paperwork submissions, or regulate the proficiency of preachers or administrators. In this sense, there's very good reason for the separation of church and government. We'd do well to soft pedal any changes!

  6. Thou shalt not kill. (Murder - Homicide - Manslaughter)
  7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. (Fornication - Bigamy)
  8. Thou shalt not steal. (Robbery - Burglary - Larceny)
  9. Thou shalt not lie. (False witness - Perjury)
10. Thou shalt not covet. (Fraud - Extortion - Counterfeit)

  THE RIGHT TO LEAVE!   "In God We Trust" is our national motto. This is not some Christian, right wing, political slogan. We adopted this motto because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools and public buildings. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because the God of the Bible is part of our culture.

 (Most of this from a writer in Tampa)

Pfooey on the popular but misguided notion of the elimination of "church" from government! "In GOD we trust", and the Bible was the primer which inculcated the language and ethics of the founders of our country for several generations!

The use of B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Anno Domini; Latin for "year of our Lord") is being replaced with other terms; like B.C.E. (Before Common Era), and modern dictionaries are eliminating those time-honored references to Christianity or the Bible.

Atheists, secularists, and 'politically correct' professors are hell-bent on eradicating America's Christian heritage.

"Vengeance is mine", says the Lord, Rom12:19, and I can't wait to see it come down on those judges and professors who have planted and watered the seeds of unbelief in this once Christian nation. The spirit of Jonah has come on me, and I'm anxious to see the wrath of God inflicted on those 'adult' unbelievers who have aided and abetted the silencing of the Word of God.

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend by the name of Common Sense, who has been with some of us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not kids, are in charge).

His health began to rapidly deteriorate when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student; but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Finally, Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense finally gave up the ghost after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot - she spilled a bit in her lap and was awarded a huge settlement!

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by two stepbrothers; My Rights and Ima Whiner.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still know him pass this on, if not join the majority and do nothing.

Wednesday, January 15, 2003 -- You might not like Rush Limbaugh (and this isn't a blanket endorsement) but he makes a VERY good point here:

by Rush Limbaugh, March 11, 2002 -- I think the vast differences in compensation between the victims of the September 11th casualty, and those who die serving the country in uniform, are profound. No one is really talking about it either because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11th. Well, I just can't let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11th attack, you're going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million. If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable. Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get $833 a month until you remarry. And there's a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a screeching halt. Keep in mind that some of the people that are getting an average of $1.185 million up to $4.7 million are complaining that it's not enough! We also learned over the weekend that some of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have started an organization asking for the same deal that the September 11th families are getting. In addition to that, some of the families of those bombed in the embassies are now asking for compensation as well. You see where this is going, don't you?

David & Goliath is a great story -- remember? It troubles me now that the USA Giant is taking on the role of world's policeman at the same time as it is denying the One True God of the Bible:   ..Removing Him from the Pledge of Allegiance, and saying all gods are equal, and accepting any ole god who gets through customs with their heathen idols. And now this previously God-blessed nation has turned to vulgar, perverted, and violent ways. Is it any wonder that some refer to us as the Great Satan??

Every time when a pay raise comes up for the military they usually receive next to nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in the Middle East while their families have to survive on food stamps and live in low rent housing. However, our own US Congress just voted themselves a raise, and many of you don't know that they only have to be in Congress one time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month and most are now equal to being millionaires plus. They also do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn't have to pay into the system. If some of the military people stay in for 20 years and get out as an E-7, you may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who placed you in harms way receive a pension of $15,000 per month. [sidebar from Bob: Isn't that obscene?]

"Let the chips fall.." I still take a dim view of those diplomats involved in denying access to overseas U.S. base privileges for retired servicemen (Spain and England from personal experience), and I'm still apprehensive and suspicious of a government which won't investigate the scurrilous attack against the

    Billy Graham's daughter was being interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response: She said "I believe that God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but 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?"

    I know there's been a lot on the internet since 9/11/01, and it's difficult to know whom to believe. Scads of articles (Google knows!) concerning the atheist M.M. O'Hair/O'Hare in light of recent events...USS Cole, twin towers destruction, school shootings, etc. -- Many of them going on as follows: - - "Let's see, I think it started when the late Madeline Murray O'Hair (she was murdered..) 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. After all, we wouldn't want this kind of message to offend others...right?

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, so we said OK.

Then, someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. And 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.) 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 figure. And we said, OK.

And then someone else took that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children and then launched out further still by making them available on the Internet. And we said OK; they're entitled to their free speech--it isn't as though they were hollering "FIRE" in a crowded theater.

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 what's the harm?.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why many don't seem to 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 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 some professor, or the Pope, or the newspapers, or an atheist-columnist like Judith Hayes (the happy heretic) has to say, but never bother to learn or question or dig for what the Bible says, or why it says it.

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 we date things (like elementary school violence) from the Columbine Shootings instead of from when the Bible was expelled or when Hollywood unleashed its sex and blood and guts agenda.

Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but the public discussion of God (and especially the name of Jesus) is suppressed in school and the workplace.

Funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday, but be an invisible Christian the rest of the week.

And isn't it peculiar how the separation of church and state means such different things to different people! Consider how this country has been founded on The God of the Bible, and not just any strange god who submits the proper paperwork or gets through customs with their fictional idols.

"In God We Trust" is our national motto. (36 United States Code USC, Section 186)

"In God We Trust" has been on our coins since 1863, even before it was our national motto. (31 USC, Section 5112(D)(1))

Our Pledge of Allegiance cites "one nation under God."

Both state legislatures and United States Congress employ paid chaplains to pray at the opening of all sessions.

All military branches of the United States government have paid chaplains.

The inscription on the Liberty Bell cites Leviticus 25:10. "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family."

A portrait of Moses with the Ten Commandments hangs above the Speaker's chair in the United States Congress. (But this is illegal in our public schools and municipal government buildings.) It is shameful that the very institution which governs us and makes the laws are able to display the Ten Commandments but the citizens cannot. Does this form of government sound familiar?

The Library of Congress (another government institution) has statues of the apostle Paul and Moses, and it has large inscriptions of Micah 6:8 and Psalms 19:1 prominently displayed. (Try pulling that off at the next high school football game.)

"He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" Micah 6:8

The Lincoln Memorial (Government property) has chiseled on it, "Judgments of the Lord are righteous."

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated to a soldier "Known but to God."

There is a prayer room in Congress. (Go tell your local school board you want the same thing that "our" Government has....a prayer room. Better yet, ask the ACLU (Anti-Christ Lawyers Union) if they will either allow prayer rooms in our schools or fight to have the one in our Government removed... just for grins of course.)

This has to be the best one yet. The very branch of our US Government which ruled against prayers at a high school football game opens the Supreme Court Session with the words, "God save the United States and this honorable court." They do this publicly, not privately.

The United States Constitution refers to Jesus, stating the Constitution was signed in 1787 "in the year of our Lord." (Could the US Government explain which "Lord" they were referring to on this document, if it wasn't Jesus?)

The United States Government has mandated "National Day of Prayer." (36 USC, Section 169(h)). (Think about that.... The very government which has ruled against public prayer at schools because of the misguided "Separation of Church and State" doctrine has mandated a "National Day of Prayer" -- by US Government Law!!)

Separation of Church and State. Maybe it is the believers in the US who have been separated from the State by dyslexic judges and politicians. Has that ever happened in recent world history? Think about it.

Keel-hauling is where the person to be keel-hauled has two ropes tied to him, usually around the waist, and then he gets thrown overboard at the bow of the ship. One of the ropes is carried down the port side of the ship and the other down the starboard side, and the person (or body) is then retrieved at the stern. This is particularly spectacular if the ship is large or if the waters happen to be shark infested.

"Drawn & Quartered" is where four ropes are tied to the person (arms and legs) and then drawn taut towards the four points of the compass, either by people or horses or perhaps tanks, until the culprit hollers "Uncle".

"Wishbone" or "Splitsville" is the American Indian version where the tops of two flexible saplings are pulled down and attached securely to either leg before allowing the trees to spring back to their usual position.

It isn't clear whether the ACLU has declared these forms of punishment as "cruel and unusual", but in the case of Osama bin Laden or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi an exception might be made.

Sorry 'bout that -- forgot for a small moment that "Whatsoever things are true and honest, just and pure, lovely and of good report; if there be any virtue or praise: THINK ON THESE THINGS!"   Phil 4:8, Isa54:7.

FW: Old Guys UNITE! (Stuff from here on is mostly copied from email, but I did edit out a few things which I thought inappropriate...)

A couple of weeks ago I thought that if I could, I'd enlist today and help my country track down those responsible for killing thousands of inocent people in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC. But now the Armed Forces says I'm too old to track down terrorists.

You can't be older than 35 to join up. They've got the whole thing backwards. Instead of sending 18-year-old eager-beavers off to the fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join until you're at least 35.

Boot camp would actually be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we actually like soft food. We've also developed a deep appreciation for guns and rifles. We like them almost better than naps. The Army could lighten up on the obstacle course, however.

I've been to the desert and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side. I can hear the Drill Sergeant now. "Get down and give me ... er ... one!"

Patience is something most 18-year-olds simply do not have. For good reason, too. An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to handle a razor, let alone a bayonet. To actually carry on a conversation and learn of officers who may sometimes give unlawful orders--horrors!

These are all great reasons to keep our sons at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off to go in harms way. Let us old guys track down those dirty, rotten cowards who attacked our hearts on 9/11. The last thing they'd want to see right now is a couple of million old guys with an attitude.




Edited by Bob Smith: 2 June 06







Third Grader Explains God

My sister sent me this article which reportedly originated from an eight year old student in Chula Vista, CA, assigned in school to "Explain God". Sounds to me like it has had some adult editing, but it's just the way I received it.

/s/ Bob Smith

One of God's main jobs is making people. He makes them to replace the ones that die, so there will be enough people to take things on earth. He doesn't make grown-ups, just babies, I think because they are smaller and easier to make. That way He doesn't have to take up his valuable time teaching them to talk and walk. He can just leave that to mothers and fathers.

God's second most important job is listening to prayers. An awful lot of this goes on, since some people, like preachers and things, pray at times beside bed-time. God doesn't have time to listen to the radio or watch TV because of this. Because He hears everything, there must be a terrible lot of noise in His ears, unless He has thought of a way to turn it off.

God sees everything and hears everything and is everywhere, which keeps Him pretty busy. So you shouldn't go wasting His time by going over your mom and dad's heads asking for something they said you couldn't have.

Atheists are people who don't believe in God. I don't think there are any in Chula Vista. At least there aren't any who come to our church.

Jesus is God's son. He used to do all the hard work like walking on water and performing miracles and trying to teach the people who didn't want to learn about God. They finally got tired of him preaching to them and they crucified him. But he was good and kind, like his Father, and he told his Father that they didn't know what they were doing and to forgive them, and God said "OK".

His dad (God) appreciated everything he had done and all his hard work on earth, so he told him he didn't have to go out on the road anymore. He could stay in heaven. So he did. And now he helps his Dad out by listening to prayers and seeing things which are important for God to take care of and which ones he can take care of himself without having to bother God. Like a secretary only more important.

You can pray anytime you want, and they are sure to help you because they got it all worked out so one of them is on duty all the time. You should always go to church on Sunday because it makes God happy, and if there's anybody you want to make happy, it's God. Don't skip church to do something you think will be more fun like going to the beach. This is wrong. And besides the sun doesn't come out at the beach until noon anyway.

If you don't believe in God, besides being an atheist, you will be very lonely, because your parents can't go everywhere with you, like to camp, but God can. It is good to know He's around you when you're scared in the dark or when you can't swim and you get thrown into real deep water by big kids. But you shouldn't just always think of what God can do for you. I figure God put me here, and He can take me back anytime He pleases.

And that's why I believe in God.









THE NEW SCHOOL PRAYER

-- This one also received by email; reportedly written by a teen in Bagdad, Arizona.







Now I sit me down at school,

Where praying is against the rule.

For this great nation under God,

Finds mention of Him very odd.





If Scripture now the class recites,

It violates the Bill of Rights.

And anytime my head I bow

Becomes a Federal matter now.





Our hair can be purple, orange, or green,

That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.

The law is specific, the law is precise.

Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.





For praying in a public hall

Might offend someone with no faith at all.

In silence alone we must meditate,

God's name is prohibited by the state.





We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,

And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.

They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.

To quote the Good book makes me liable.







We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,

And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.

It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong,

We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.





We can get our condoms and birth controls,

Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.

But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,

No word of God must reach this crowd.





It's scary here I must confess,

When chaos reigns, the school's a mess.

So, Lord, this silent plea I make:

Should I be shot; My soul please take! Amen