It's True, it would be Controversial

I had saved this months ago and just read it again, the thing is whatever your religious persuasion, she has a point.
This is about America but some of it would apply here.

"The following was seen in a Church Magazine in August 2003

Billy Graham’s daughter was being interviewed on the Early Show and was asked how God could allow something like September 11th to happen. Anne Graham’s answer was both profound and insightful. 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 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?

In the light of recent events terrorist attacks, school shootings, etc, Let’s see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found only recently), complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said, OK.

Then, someone said you’d better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says, “Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbour as yourself.” And we said, OK.

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 what he’s talking about, so we said, OK.

Then someone said, “Teachers and principals had better not discipline our children when they misbehave, and better not touch them when they misbehave, either, because we don’t want any bad publicity and we don’t want to be sued.” (There’s a big difference between disciplining and touching, beating, smacking, humiliating, kicking, etc.) And 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, so 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 of the beauty of the female body.” And we said, OK.

And then someone took appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children, then stepped still further by making them available on the Internet. And we said, OK, they’re entitled to their free speech.

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 go ahead.”

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 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 girt 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 some people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.

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 someone can say, “I believe in God” but still follow Satan who, by the way, also, “believes” in God. Funny how quick we are to judge, but not be judged.

Funny how you can send a thousand jokes through email and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.

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

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

Are YOU laughing?

Funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it to them. Funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what God thinks of me.

Are YOU thinking?

Pass it on, if you think it has merit. No-one will know that you did. (Except God). But, if you discard this thought process, then don’t sit back and complain about what a bad shape the world is in!

Received via a friend, who had it from a friend, who had an email from a friend in America."