This regular Sunday morning article is not only about Religion, but
also about what people believe in, and some of the causes they support!
One of my favourite writers is author and historian Gwynne Dyer, who usually manages to hit the nail right on the head!
(Instead of smashing his own thumb.)
A hundred years from now Edward Snowden will either be a folk hero ………………………., or lost in the dust of history!
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Another one is the late Andy Rooney:
One of my favourite writers is author and historian Gwynne Dyer, who usually manages to hit the nail right on the head!
(Instead of smashing his own thumb.)
A year-end piece should be a first draft of history
that tries to identify where the flow of events is taking us. Snowden
comes first. The former National Security Agency contractor, once an
unremarkable man, saw where the combination of new technologies and
institutional empire-building was taking us, and stepped in front of the
juggernaut to stop it.
“You recognize that you’re going in blind…,” Snowden told the
Washington Post. “But when you weigh that against the alternative, which
is not to act, you realize that some analysis is better than no
analysis.” So he fled his country taking a huge cache of secret
documents with him, and started a global debate about the acceptability
of mass surveillance techniques that the vast majority of people did not
even know existed.
As Snowden, now living in exile in Russia, put it in a Christmas
broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4: “A child born today will grow up with
no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to
have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought.”
Unless, that is, the monster of state-run mass surveillance is brought
under control.
“The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust
we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government
that regulates it,” Snowden said in his Channel 4 broadcast. He has
paid a high price to give us this opportunity.
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Another one is the late Andy Rooney:
Subject: "Pray if you want
to" - Andy Rooney
Pray if you want to!
CBS and Katie Couric et al must be in a panic and rushing to reassure
the White House that this is not network policy.
Folks, this is the year that we RE-TAKE AMERICA & CANADA
********* Get Ready *********
Keep this going around the globe.
Read it and forward every time you receive it...
We can't give up on this issue.
Andy Rooney and Prayer
Andy Rooney says:
I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue somebody for
singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December.
I don't agree with Darwin , but I didn't go out and hire a lawyer when
my high school teacher taught his theory of evolution.
Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be endangered in any
way because someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game.
So what's the big deal?
It's not like somebody is up there reading the entire Book of Acts.
They're just talking to a God they believe in and asking him to grant
safety to the players on the field and the fans going home from the game.
But it's a Christian prayer, some will argue.
Yes, and this is the United States of America , and Canada , countries
founded on Christian principles. According to our very own phone book,
Christian churches outnumber all others better than 200-to-1.
So what would you expect --
Somebody chanting Hare Krishna?
If I went to a football game in Jerusalem ,
I would expect to hear a Jewish prayer.
If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad,
I would expect to hear a Muslim prayer.
If I went to a ping pong match in China ,
I would expect to hear someone pray to Buddha.
And I wouldn't be offended. It wouldn't bother me one bit.
When in Rome .....
But what about the atheists? Is another argument.
What about them?
Nobody is asking them to be baptized. We're not going to pass the
collection plate. Just humor us for 30 seconds. If that's asking too
much, bring a Walkman or a pair of ear plugs. Go to the bathroom. Visit
the concession stand. Call your lawyer! Or, just exercise their right to
leave this country!
Unfortunately, one or two will call their lawyer.
One or two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do. I don't
think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake the world's
foundations.
Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while our
courts strip us of all our rights.
Our parents and grandparents taught us to pray before eating, to pray
before we go to sleep.
Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing.
Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease
praying.
God, help us. And if that last sentence offends you, well, just sue me.
The silent majority has been silent too long. It's time we tell that
one or two who scream loud enough to be heard that the vast majority
doesn't care what they want!
It is time that the majority rules!
It's time we tell them, "You don't have to pray; you don't have to say
the Pledge of Allegiance; you don't have to believe in God or attend
services that honor Him.
That is your right, and we will honor your right;
But by golly,
You are no longer going to take our rights away.
We are fighting back, and we WILL WIN!"
God bless us one and all...Especially those who denounce Him, God bless
America and Canada , despite all our faults, we are still the greatest
nations of all.
God bless our service men who are fighting to protect our right to pray
and worship God.
Let's make 2013 the year the silent majority is heard and we put God
back as the foundation of our families and institutions. And our military
forces come home from all the wars.
Keep looking up.
If you agree with this, please pass it on.
If not delete it.
BUT REMEMBER SHOULD YOU DELETE IT,
that's one reason why this world is in the mess we're in now.
WE JUST SIT BACK & LET IT HAPPEN!!
Pray if you want to!
CBS and Katie Couric et al must be in a panic and rushing to reassure
the White House that this is not network policy.
Folks, this is the year that we RE-TAKE AMERICA & CANADA
********* Get Ready *********
Keep this going around the globe.
Read it and forward every time you receive it...
We can't give up on this issue.
Andy Rooney and Prayer
Andy Rooney says:
I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue somebody for
singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December.
I don't agree with Darwin , but I didn't go out and hire a lawyer when
my high school teacher taught his theory of evolution.
Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be endangered in any
way because someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game.
So what's the big deal?
It's not like somebody is up there reading the entire Book of Acts.
They're just talking to a God they believe in and asking him to grant
safety to the players on the field and the fans going home from the game.
But it's a Christian prayer, some will argue.
Yes, and this is the United States of America , and Canada , countries
founded on Christian principles. According to our very own phone book,
Christian churches outnumber all others better than 200-to-1.
So what would you expect --
Somebody chanting Hare Krishna?
If I went to a football game in Jerusalem ,
I would expect to hear a Jewish prayer.
If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad,
I would expect to hear a Muslim prayer.
If I went to a ping pong match in China ,
I would expect to hear someone pray to Buddha.
And I wouldn't be offended. It wouldn't bother me one bit.
When in Rome .....
But what about the atheists? Is another argument.
What about them?
Nobody is asking them to be baptized. We're not going to pass the
collection plate. Just humor us for 30 seconds. If that's asking too
much, bring a Walkman or a pair of ear plugs. Go to the bathroom. Visit
the concession stand. Call your lawyer! Or, just exercise their right to
leave this country!
Unfortunately, one or two will call their lawyer.
One or two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do. I don't
think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake the world's
foundations.
Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while our
courts strip us of all our rights.
Our parents and grandparents taught us to pray before eating, to pray
before we go to sleep.
Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing.
Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease
praying.
God, help us. And if that last sentence offends you, well, just sue me.
The silent majority has been silent too long. It's time we tell that
one or two who scream loud enough to be heard that the vast majority
doesn't care what they want!
It is time that the majority rules!
It's time we tell them, "You don't have to pray; you don't have to say
the Pledge of Allegiance; you don't have to believe in God or attend
services that honor Him.
That is your right, and we will honor your right;
But by golly,
You are no longer going to take our rights away.
We are fighting back, and we WILL WIN!"
God bless us one and all...Especially those who denounce Him, God bless
America and Canada , despite all our faults, we are still the greatest
nations of all.
God bless our service men who are fighting to protect our right to pray
and worship God.
Let's make 2013 the year the silent majority is heard and we put God
back as the foundation of our families and institutions. And our military
forces come home from all the wars.
Keep looking up.
If you agree with this, please pass it on.
If not delete it.
BUT REMEMBER SHOULD YOU DELETE IT,
that's one reason why this world is in the mess we're in now.
WE JUST SIT BACK & LET IT HAPPEN!!
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