My Confession by Ben Stein

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The following was written by Ben Stein and recited

by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:

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 explicitly an 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 celebrities, but 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 these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.

In light of recent events — terrorist attacks, school shootings,….

I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered; her body was found a few years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.

The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and you should love your neighbor as yourself. Then someone said, you better not read the Bible in school…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). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about…and we said OK

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.

If we think about it long and hard enough, we can probably figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with

‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’

Funny how simple it is for 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 you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing them. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
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Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you 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.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not, then just discard it…no one but you will know you did.

But, if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in. OK?

My Best Regards,

Honestly and Respectfully,

Ben Stein
 
I’m getting a little sick of that too. Before you know it, it will be Christmas, and in the weeks leading up to it, I’m going to see Pro atheist billboards, even here in the Deep South, where the majority of people still go to church. I don’t understand, they complain about us shoving religion down their throats, but what are they doing? I find it to be a wee bit of hypocrisy. I’ve always had great respect for Ben Stein, he’s a really good actor, and that droning voice, actually if you’ve ever watched Win Ben Stein’s Money is not as common as people think it is, I think he’s absolutely right here. I think it’s nice for someone, that’s actually been involved in Hollywood to say something like this.
 
There is some very good, conservative, socially traditional thinking in the Jewish world. Jackie Mason and Shmuely Boteach have many good ideas, and Commentary magazine is another good source.
 
adamhovey1988 said:
wee bit of hypocrisy.
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My brother Adam. Wee bit? Freedom from religion ( FFR) is a very, very evil group who are usually the instigators of signs like that. They are bigots. They delight going into small towns or little cities and telling the people who have put these monuments up, proudly expressing their belief in God as a community and then FFR harass the town folk by telling them it is against the law and then they take small towns to court.
Our Constitution has always given us these rights of Freedom of religion and our founding Fathers were not atheist. Their twisted, sick and unreasonable scream is: separation of Church and state, but our Constitution never was interpreted to not allow the freedom of the people to express their belief in God. One woman went full force as an atheists to bully our Nation and our children by getting rid of any recognition of God in the public schools and O’Hare tragically won.
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Trust me, I don’t disagree. There is a very large cross near where I live, it was erected on private land, owned by a charitable institution, but next to a public cemetery. Never mind the cemetery already has crosses on it (it is a cemetery), someone found it offensive. (Most people didn’t care, and the owners did not cave to the demands of a few)
 
I knew you didn’t disagree. That is awful that someone had the power to get the cross taken down. We really need to fight these people even if it is just one individual. O’Hare was just one tragic woman who has hurt our youth for decades. God have mercy on her soul.
PS–oh, you said the cross didn’t come down…well thank God. @adamhovey1988
 
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I loved that show, Win Ben Stein’s Money. I even beat him in the final round once or twice.
 
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