This is it in a nutshell.
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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Dear Concerned Student:
I am not allowed in schools.
Sincerely,
God
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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 neighbors as
yourself." And we said, OK...
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Dr. Benjamin Spock, whose son committed suicide, 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...
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