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| I'd like to open this with a great piece from Ben Stein.Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart:I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are.I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter.I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores.They never know who Nick and Jessica are either.Who are they?Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up?Why are they so important?I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is, either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife.Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive?Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are.Is this what it means to be no longer young.It's not so bad.Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish.And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees.I don't feel threatened.I don't feel discriminated against.That's what they are: Christmas trees.It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto.In fact, I kind of like it.It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year.It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu.If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. |
| If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country.I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too.But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.-Ben Stein, December, 2005I am a Christian, and I'm tired.I'm tired of people believing me to be a fool for believing in something greater than myself.I am tired of being called a hypocrite for also supporting scientific endeavors that aren't faith based.Why does it have to be that I can either believe in science or God, but not both?Why can't I let science explain how things work, and God explain why they work?I'm not here to belittle anyone's beliefs.I'm not here to convert anyone.I'm not here to tell you what to believe, or not to believe.I'm just here to do what is right by me, and to try to help others across the board.I don't preach to people who don't want to be preached to.I'm just trying to live my life in peace, and find my own answers.Why do people want to take that away from me?I have been through some horrible abuse.I have done a lot of drugs.I have hurt myself.I have lied, cheated, and stolen from people I care about. |
| I have lied, cheated, and stolen from people I care about.I have hurt others for my own personal gain.One day, I read a bible.I saw what I was doing, and how destructive it all was.I changed my life, and gave myself to God.I got clean.I made amends.I became an honest person.With out God, could I have done it?Could I have found the strength?I honestly don't know.All I can say for sure is that my faith has pulled me out of hell.Why would people take that away from me? I'm here, happy to be alive.I'm not telling you how to live your life.I'm always here to help anyone, to lend an ear, to share what little wisdom I have, and to try to do some good.I do these things, not because I fear hell, because I have been to hell and do not fear it.I do these things because I love God, and I love all people.Even if I don't like them, I still love them.So, can anyone shed some light as to why people would hate me for that?Can someone tell me why anyone would want to take away that which I hold most dear?Honestly, I just don't understand it. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 17 July 2008 )
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