The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning

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 crèche, 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 celebrities 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 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.

Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her ‘How could God let something like this happen?’ (regarding Hurricane Katrina ). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, ‘I believe 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 He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?’

In light of recent events… Terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor 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). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said okay.

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

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.

Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not, then just discard it….. No one 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.

It is interesting that a Jewish professor has to explain the sewer of America to Christians, whom created the land in God’s honor, and then abandoned it to devil’s multi-kulti internationalists.

Right on, Professor Stein !

Mr. L. L.

“Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with ‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’

Add in the concepts of taking responsibility for your own thoughts & actions (not blaming everything else), add in the concepts of integrity, honor, concience,  (latv. - atbildiba, gods, goda prats, goda vards, sirdsapzina utt.)  and TEACH them to your children. 

I agree with Ban Stein.

‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.

Yes.  Do we realize this truth when posting internationalic propaganda and anti-ethnic-Latvian diatribe on this forum?

Mr. L. L.

You do know that most of this text was not written, nor said, by Ben Stein, right? Here is what he did say.

Pierre

@Pierre

Thanks for enlightening.  I do not know who wrote or who said this text .  To be truthful, I did not know whom Professor Stein was until I read the posting and looked him up in Wiki.  And if it where that important,  would you not tell us the truth about it, here on LOL , rather than sending us to Rather’s (nice pun :)  )  trash bin?

My response was to the text of Mr. seskis’ posting ,  not the alleged author of the quotation. It is hitting hard at the international liberalism many on this forum are propagandizing.  Do ethnic Latvians have some of the morality, expounded in the quotation, left?

And while on the subject of moralizing - how many follow Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s advice on a relationships leading to families as building blocks of an ethnic nation?  And before you are starting to throw stones, and you are not Islamic,  do you remember what Lord Jesus said about the Jewish biblical law of throwing stones?

Mr. L. L.

Mr. L.L.,

My note was directed more towards Seskis than you. I should have made this clearer, sorry. Bet paldies par kristiešu un līdzjūtības vārdiem…

Pierre

@Pierre -

Sorry about my intervention. My impression was that your post was meant for all readers.

Do you want me to delete my post in question?

@ all readers -

Even with washing their christening off in Daugava, Latvians became and stayed a Christian nation. In my experience, there were never churches as full as in 1941, after German Army liberated us from Jewish Commissars and their Bolshevik regime.  Latvian National heroes of Latvian first and second divisions during the years 1942-45 were assigned Lutheran and Catholic clergy whom provided religious services for all soldiers as often as was possible.

It is sad that the only Latvian “religious” teachings I see on some posts here are advocating use of narcotics as a religious ritual.

Latvians apparently are not able to explain and adhere to moral laws given by God and have to be reminded by “God’s preferred nation”.  As we share the same God, there is nothing wrong to be reminded by some Jews of the moral laws we often like to ignore.

Or are we already marching in goose-step with the recent Savior of the humanity, Hussein Obama, into Islamism?

Mr. L. L.