Ever Wonder What Happens When
We Do Nothing?
In light of the shooting of
the six-year-old child by another six-year-old in Michigan:
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 neighbor 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 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 going great.
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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
we have no problem with that.
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And someone else then took
that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children
and then further still by making them available on the Internet. And we
said they’re entitled to their 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.
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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.
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Therefore, 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... |
