Well said, Brad.  There is definitely a place for righteous anger.  I sure
think it applies here.  Then, our responsibility is to handle our anger
right so we don't give place to the enemy.

Vicki

----- Original Message -----
From: "BD" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: Christmas in Denver band


> Doesn't it just sicken you to see the blatant one-sidedness against
Christ?
> We can't pray in high school but we can have gay alliance meetings, we try
> to raise our kids with morals and respect for parents and our kids are
> given ability to obtain birth control without parents knowing it, and yet
> those very parents are held responsible for the childs action???? We are
> restricted in law to not mention Christ, we can abort our unborn without
it
> being murder but when the heat is on as in the Scott Peterson trial it
then
> is counted as murder of a life of the unborn, we are fighting to keep the
> ten commandments in our courts and now on the historical stone buildings
> which they were carved by our forefathers, who, according to the courts of
> today claim our forefathers did not know what they wanted in that regard,
> they didn't know what they were doing. How insulting to denounce our own
> forefathers whom this country was built and more so the creator. Where
does
> freedom of speech apply to us as Christians? Seems gays, atheists, and
> immoral people can speak whatever they want... take one listen to Howard
> Stern and you'll see the envelope being pushed on freedom of speech as
your
> stomach turns, but we say Merry Christmas in a holiday parade and we are
> wrong??? What is wrong with this picture? We cannot say Merry
> Christmas,  but we can speak Jesus Christ in a fit of anger and use his
> name in vain, then that is OK. And what is up with that? I've never seen
> anyone dash their foot against a curb and blurt out a curse word of "....
> Oh Buddha!" or "Hari blankety blank Chrishna!". Why is that? Because there
> are greater forces at work at the ready to use every subtly to desensitize
> and reduce Christ in our everyday lives. It angers me to see the blatant
> abuse of our rights with favor being given to the immoral.
>
> Brad