A Student Writes to God

[Starman3000m]

Received this from a friend - some of you may have seen this before. It's worth the read:

Dear GOD:

Why didn't you save the school children at....

Virginia Tech 04/16/07
Amish Country, PA
Wisconsin
Columbine High School
Moses Lake , Washington 2/2/96
Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97
Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97
West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97
Stamp, 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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Reply:
Dear Concerned Student:
I am not allowed in schools.
Sincerely, GOD
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How did this get started?... -----------------
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 said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehaved 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...
"WE REAP WHAT WE SOW"
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Pass it on if you think it has merit! If not then just discard it... but if you discard this thought process, then don't you dare sit back and complain about what bad shape this country is in!

 

[Geek]

This crap is why people give up on religon. What an incrediable insult to the victims at these tragic events. You suck for posting this.

 

[Geek]

And that would so not be God's answer


Here is a better answer from God

Dear Student,

You forgot to list all the shootings that didn't happen, where my children didn't die because I was able to be a positive influence when someone needed it most. You have free will and so does everyone else. When someone gives positive energy they will get positive rewards. Does that mean that bad things don't happen to good people? Or that good things don't happen to bad people? No, it does not. But the souls of the people lost when they should have been safe are sacred. Have no doubts, I am always with you, no matter where you stand, You will never be alone for I live in your heart.

Love Always, God



And I wrote that my freaking self. I didn't copy paste some half-assed idea from my e mail.

 

[BuffaloBill]

Received this from a friend - some of you may have seen this before. It's worth the read:

Dear GOD:

Why didn't you save the school children at....

Virginia Tech 04/16/07
Amish Country, PA
Wisconsin
Columbine High School
Moses Lake , Washington 2/2/96
Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97
Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97
West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97
Stamp, 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?

Oh, Those are gun free zones. Damn, how could that happen?

 

[Starman3000m]

Wow! This one touched some sensitive nerves. So here is something else to rag me about:

All truth passes through three stages:

1) First, it is ridiculed;
2) Second, it is violently opposed; and
3) Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

 

[ItalianScallion]

This crap is why people give up on religon. What an incrediable insult to the victims at these tragic events. You suck for posting this.

OK darling. Then there is no Hell and Jesus only spoke of Heaven and cops ONLY give gold stars to those who keep the law and nothing is wrong in America because we all use "good news only" filters on our TV's and everyone gets released in the courtroom and essentially everything in the world is good, right? Please come out of Disney World and you'll see that these are the EXACT reasons why this country is where it is today. Or do you not want to see this? Most (not all) people didn't stand up against any of these events/people when they were happening so we are reaping what we have sown. Can't deny it, the founding fathers (Edmund Burke) said it and don't blame "religion" for it. It's the fault of anyone who didn't speak out or act against it.
(P.S. still waiting for that rainbow)

 

[JPC sr]

Batman

OK darling.

She never said any of that garbage you posted as if she did.

"Geek" gave a correct and honest perspective and you did not.

 

[Starman3000m]

(2 Timothy 3:1-4)

1: This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2: For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3: Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4: Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Stay tuned for more, as reported in daily papers and on TV News!

 

[ItalianScallion]

She never said any of that garbage you posted as if she did.
"Geek" gave a correct and honest perspective and you did not.

She looked at it from a purely positive perspective and left out all the negatives. So did I (sarcastically), but it's not true reality. Is it all about perspective? Maybe, but I thought I'd take a break from reality as she did there and as you have done for most of your life. You don't even realize that this is EXACTLY what you do. May I quote you? "Everyone will be saved in the end". Sounds the same to me. Nothing negative to fret over. The dems will fix everything. Nothing matters. I really can't understand how you miss the easiest things in life.

 

[Geek]

She looked at it from a purely positive perspective and left out all the negatives. So did I (sarcastically), but it's not true reality. Is it all about perspective? Maybe, but I thought I'd take a break from reality as she did there and as you have done for most of your life. You don't even realize that this is EXACTLY what you do. May I quote you? "Everyone will be saved in the end". Sounds the same to me. Nothing negative to fret over. The dems will fix everything. Nothing matters. I really can't understand how you miss the easiest things in life.

Well hello there

So you are a big Bible beater? Do you follow the Bible word for word, like you are supposed to?

I will post a few quotes and rules for you and I would like to hear how they are appiled in your daily life. Or do you, like most Stringent Bible beaters only pick out certain, popular parts of the Bible to obey?


"31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father."
Genesis 19"

 

[Geek]

Romans 13:8:

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law.



- Numbers 15:32-35:


And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.



"'Observe my regulations. "'Don't let your livestock mate with those of another kind, don't sow your field with two different kinds of grain, and don't wear a garment of cloth made with two different kinds of thread. (Leviticus 19:19)

"'If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, that is, with the wife of a fellow countryman, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10)

The man who goes to bed with his father's wife has disgraced his father sexually, and both of them must be put to death; their blood is on them. (Leviticus 20:11)

If a man goes to bed with a woman in her menstrual period and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her blood, and she has exposed the source of her blood; both of them are to be cut off from their people. (Leviticus 20:18)





And you will ignore all of these rules, picking your beliefs from the Bible like choosing from a menu at a resturant.

Murder has happened from the beginning of time. It is horrible, sad and scary every time. Do I think when one person murders another God has anything to do with it? No, I don't. Humans make their choices: good or bad. God does not stand with His hands behind His back doing nothing for people that don't believe in "Christianity". Good people are rewared with positive energy. Bad draw negative energy to themselves.

 

[MMDad]

Amish Country, PA

Sincerely, Concerned Student
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Reply:
Dear Concerned Student:
I am not allowed in schools.
Sincerely, GOD
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Your entire argument falls apart because you used the Amish school. Do you really think that God was excluded from the Amish school?

Isn't it just a little bit pompous to put your words into God's mouth?

Isn't it a bit sacreligious for you to say that the laws of man could actually exclude God from any place He wants to be?

I understand the point of your post, that you believe it is wrong to exclude God from schools, but this post is having the opposite effect. You should rethink posting every piece of glurge that comes through your inbox and actually read it for comprehension first.

 

[PsyOps]

And that would so not be God's answer


Here is a better answer from God

Dear Student,

You forgot to list all the shootings that didn't happen, where my children didn't die because I was able to be a positive influence when someone needed it most. You have free will and so does everyone else. When someone gives positive energy they will get positive rewards. Does that mean that bad things don't happen to good people? Or that good things don't happen to bad people? No, it does not. But the souls of the people lost when they should have been safe are sacred. Have no doubts, I am always with you, no matter where you stand, You will never be alone for I live in your heart.

Love Always, God



And I wrote that my freaking self. I didn't copy paste some half-assed idea from my e mail.

You really believe that would be God’s answer? How many shootings didn’t happen? How ridiculous! Our kids aren’t supposed to be killing each other. Why would God have to recognize that which we are supposed to be doing in the first place? Do you expect to be recognized everyday that you are doing the right thing? How absurd!

 

[PsyOps]

Murder has happened from the beginning of time. It is horrible, sad and scary every time. Do I think when one person murders another God has anything to do with it? No, I don't. Humans make their choices: good or bad. God does not stand with His hands behind His back doing nothing for people that don't believe in "Christianity". Good people are rewared with positive energy. Bad draw negative energy to themselves.

This isn’t about whether God has anything to do with someone murdering someone. It has to do with the absence of God that people murder. Man is bringing this on himself because of the absence of God. When you have a society that is purposefully trying to remove God from public mention you get what we have in this country; a moral decline; a cheapening of life; complete disregard for each other’s safety and well-being; promiscuity and unadulterated sex; zero discipline and respect from our children; I could go on and on.

It’s not God that gets blamed when these bad things happen; God blames man for rejecting him

 

[MMDad]

It’s not God that gets blamed when these bad things happen; God blames man for rejecting him

It's a good thing you are here to tell me what God thinks. Should I just pray straight to you, since you have this inside line?

 

[JPC sr]

Batman

You really believe that would be God’s answer? How many shootings didn’t happen? How ridiculous! Our kids aren’t supposed to be killing each other. Why would God have to recognize that which we are supposed to be doing in the first place? Do you expect to be recognized everyday that you are doing the right thing? How absurd!

You must believe God is in your own immage and that immage of "Starman"

that God like you guys only see the evil and the negative side

and that God like you all just ignores the rightful and decent actions going on at the same time.

What "geek" said is not "absurd" and "Starman" certainly does not speak for God in his hatefilled comments.

 

[PsyOps]

It's a good thing you are here to tell me what God thinks. Should I just pray straight to you, since you have this inside line?

Naw... I prefer you pray to God. This isn’t rocket science. Why do you think there was a need for Christ? How about a little reading?

“To Adam he said, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate from the the tree about which I commanded you, “You must not eat of it”, cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.” Genesis 3:17​

Because of this, God carried this curse through man’s existence.

"But your sins have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear." Isaiah 59:2​

“No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away because of our sins” Isaiah 64:7​

“Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce fruit. He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed” Matthew 21:43-44​

Jesus spoke…

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, did not help you?’

“He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me’” Matthew 25:41-45​

“Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator” Romans 1:24​

“What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” James 4:1​

“For everything in the world – the cravings of the sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does – comes not from the Father but from the world” 1 John 2:16​

 

[Geek]

This isn’t about whether God has anything to do with someone murdering someone. It has to do with the absence of God that people murder. Man is bringing this on himself because of the absence of God. When you have a society that is purposefully trying to remove God from public mention you get what we have in this country; a moral decline; a cheapening of life; complete disregard for each other’s safety and well-being; promiscuity and unadulterated sex; zero discipline and respect from our children; I could go on and on.

It’s not God that gets blamed when these bad things happen; God blames man for rejecting him

And when people are mentally disturbed? And They were born that way? And they kill somone? That blows your theory to hell.


And yes, I believe that would be God's answer. Of course we are acknowledeged for what we do right. Hello? Isn't that the whole reason you believe in religon?

 

[ItalianScallion]

Well hello there
So you are a big Bible beater? Do you follow the Bible word for word, like you are supposed to?
I will post a few quotes and rules for you and I would like to hear how they are appiled in your daily life. Or do you, like most Stringent Bible beaters only pick out certain, popular parts of the Bible to obey?

Hello again. First, no one can follow ALL the Bible laws word for word. It's impossible and many things DID go away with the New testament & the death of Jesus. It's not that we pick & choose, but Jesus changed many things when He came along.

"31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father."
Genesis 19"

Geek Dear, what is your point to me about this? I am totally confused about this one. I know the story well, but what does it have to do with me?

 

[ItalianScallion]

Romans 13:8:
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law.

With God's help I love everyone (tough as it is sometimes), my house, car & Harley are paid for and I owe no one except the monthly utility companies.

- Numbers 15:32-35: (Leviticus 19:19) (Leviticus 20:10)
(Leviticus 20:11) (Leviticus 20:18)
And you will ignore all of these rules, picking your beliefs from the Bible like choosing from a menu at a resturant.

One of the many purposes of the New Covenant was to save mankind from the impossible laws that were instituted back then. Many of them were made strict so that mankind would respect God and fear Him. Some were made by man so that he could control people (same as the gov't today does). You have to remember that we don't pick & choose what we want to believe from the Bible but many of the OT laws and customs were done away with when Jesus died.

Murder has happened from the beginning of time. It is horrible, sad and scary every time. Do I think when one person murders another God has anything to do with it? No, I don't. Humans make their choices: good or bad. God does not stand with His hands behind His back doing nothing for people that don't believe in "Christianity". Good people are rewared with positive energy. Bad draw negative energy to themselves.

I agree with you dear heart! I'm not sure that I know why you quoted all this Scripture to me but I believe that PsyOps had the best response to the original post. The more we put God out of our lives, the farther down society will go. That's all that Starman was getting at when he posted it. Regardless of that, God is still in total control of everything but He will let bad things happen when people tell Him they don't want Him around. Families, schools, government, etc., have all suffered for the decisions they made to reject God. There is sooo much statistical proof that this is true. America NEVER had this much violent crime and corruption in all it's years until God started being removed from it. Look at the schools mainly. They removed prayer, Bible reading, 10 commandments, discipline and morality in general and now gun violence is a regular event there. The same with the family; look at the divorce & cohabitation rate now and look how angry the kids are today. The government; look what a mess they made of it. I know that God didn't want this world to be this complicated and fast paced because He saw how it would take it's toll on the most important unit He created, the family. Destroy that foundation and you destroy everything. I see that He was right.