The White House called Christmas trees holiday trees for the first time this year, prompting CBS host Steven Levy to share his thoughts. The following was written by Steven Levy and told on CBS Sunday Morning.
My confession:
I don't like being persecuted because of my Jewishness, and I don't think Christians like being persecuted because of their Christianity either. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of being bullied. I have no idea where the concept that America is a distinctly atheistic country came from. I can't find that in the constitution and I don't like it shoved down my throat…
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and not worship God as we understand it? I guess it's also a sign that I'm getting older. But there are many of us who wonder where these celebrities came from and where the America we know has gone.
We send each other a lot of jokes to laugh, but this one is a little different: it's not a joke; this is not funny, my goal is to make you think.
In light of recent events…terrorist attacks, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (murdered, body found a few years ago) complained that she didn't want prayer in our schools and we said OK. Then someone said they better not read the Bible in school... The Bible says you shall not kill; do not steal and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Steven Benjamin Spock said that we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because it distorts their little personalities and destroys their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said that an expert should know what he is talking about. And we said okay.
Now we ask ourselves why our children don't have a conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why they don't mind killing strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
We can probably figure it out if we think long and hard. I think it has a lot to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW".
Funny how easy it is for people to throw God out and then wonder why the world is going to hell. It's funny how we believe what the newspapers say but question what the Bible says. It's funny how you can email "jokes" and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages about the Lord, people think twice about sharing. It's funny how mean, crude, vulgar, and obscene articles pass freely in cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in schools and workplaces.
Are you still laughing?
It's funny that when someone forwards this message, they don't send it to a lot of people on their mailing list, because they're not sure what they think or will think of them for sending it.
It's funny how we worry more about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit.
If not, just throw it away… no one will know you did. But if you dismiss that line of thought, don't sit back and complain about how bad the world is.
Written by Tamás Kardos
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