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We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 2008. Our children helped us celebrate with an all expense paid all arranged vacation In Hawaii.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
There’s an old song with the words, “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, sweetest name I know...” For close to fifty years I went to the pulpit on Sundays and talked about Jesus. Benjamin Franklin understood Jesus as a wise man worthy of imitation. Thomas Jefferson regarded him as a moral teacher. George W. Bush named Jesus as his favorite philosopher.
I’m reading, Jesus In America, Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession by Richard Fox. Fox says, “This book is for believers and non-believers alike. It is not a book about whether one should believe in Jesus, but about how Americans have believed in and portrayed him.”
And yet, with all the talk about Jesus and the belief in him, we are now being told you can’t talk about him in certain places. A young girl was giving a speech to her graduation class and she was told she couldn’t talk about God or Jesus. She did it anyhow and the students cheered. But those in charge of graduation turned her mike off when she started talking about God.
What a shame. I never thought I would live to see this happen. But it is happening, right here in America. What a shame!
2 comments:
And it came to pass...that as I clicked "Next Blog", that I found yours.
Clif,
Your post is, unfortunately, so very accurate.
I watched a show last night which discussed the religious principles of the founding fathers, and of the religious judgements issued by the supreme court in earlier years of our nation's history. It is startling, tragic, and sad as to how far our nation has moved from its original religious convictions.
Steve
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