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02-21-2006, 01:36 PM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2005
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| From a very good friend! > From a very good friend. > > Thanks, > Jim Fishback > > Stop telling God how big your storm is. > Instead tell your storm how big your GOD is !!! > > -- > > For those who may not know, Roane County is just west of Knox County > wherein lies Knoxville. I had heard something about this before I got > this email and am told this is the absolute truth. It may be a > popular thing to make fun of Tennesseans, but this is one man that > makes all godly Tennesseeans proud. > > STATEMENT AT A FOOTBALL GAME > > This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the > football game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tennessee, by > school Principal, Jody McCloud. > > "It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football > games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and > Country.? > Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a > Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at > this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual > perversion and call it "an alternate lifestyle," And if someone is > offended, that's OK. > I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and > calling it, "safe sex." If someone is offended, that's OK. > > I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing > an unborn baby as a "viable means of birth control." If someone is > offended, no problem... > > I can designate a school day as "Earth Day" and involve students in > activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess "mother > earth" and call it "ecology? I can use literature, videos and > presentations in the classroom that depict people with strong, > traditional Christian convictions as "simple minded" and "ignorant" > and call it "enlightenment." > > However, if anyone uses this facility to honor God and to ask Him to > bless this event with safety and good sportsmanship, then Federal Case > Law is violated. > > This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical. > Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except God > and His Commandments. > > Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and > students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. > For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, > hypocritical... I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. > I certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression. For this > reason, I shall "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar?s,? and > refrain from praying at this time. "However, if you feel inspired to > honor, praise and thank God and ask Him, in the name of Jesus, to > bless this event, please feel free to do so. As far as I know, that's > not against the law----yet." > > One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands > with one another and began to pray. They prayed in the stands. > > They prayed in the team huddles. > > They prayed at the concession stand > > and they prayed in the Announcer's Box! > > The only place they didn't pray was in the Supreme Court of the United > States of America - the Seat of "Justice" in the "one nation, under > God." Somehow, Kingston, Tennessee, remembered what so many > have forgotten. We are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom > FROM Religion. Praise God that His remnant remains! Jesus said, "If > you are ashamed of Me before men, then I will be ashamed of you before > My Father." If you are not ashamed, pass this on. Or are you a Liberal???? |
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02-21-2006, 02:55 PM | #2 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Effingham, Illinois
Posts: 2,535
| I love this!!!!! Thank you! |
02-22-2006, 06:47 AM | #3 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: South Carolina
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| This is Great!! |
02-22-2006, 07:14 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Virginia
Posts: 800
| One word " Awesome"!! This person is sooo right!! It seems these days that we have to tolerant and seek an understanding of ALL religions other than Christianity!! I certainly do not dismiss other religions it would be nice it mine wasn't!!! |
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