don't send me anymore email like this PLEASE!!!!

OK HERE IS THE EMAIL I RECEIVED...

If you have children or grand-children or you have neighbor children whose parents you know, please take note of the info below or pass it along to others. Schools are a distribution point to children for this book through the Scholastic Book Club. ~~~~~~ Beware of the book,* Conversations with God.* Dr. James Dobson talked about this book twice this week. It is devastating and parents and Christian schools need to be aware of this. Do pass it on to church/e-mail addressees, Parents, Grand parents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, friends. Please pay special attention not only to what your kids watch o! n ! ! TV and in movie theaters and the music they listen to, but we must also be alert regarding the books they read. Two particular books, "Conversations with God" and "Conversations with God for Teens," written by Neale D. Walsch, sound harmless enough by their titles alone. These books have been on the New York Times best sellers list for a number of weeks, and these publications make truth of the statement, "Don't judge a book by its cover/title."
The author purports to answer various questions from kids using the "voice of God". However, the "answers" that he gives are not Bible-based and go against the very infallible word of God. For instance (and I paraphrase), when a girl asks the question "Why am I a lesbian?" His answer is that sh! e ! ! was born that way because of genetics (just as you were born right-handed, with blue eyes, etc.). Then he tells her to go out and "celebrate" her differences.

Another girls poses the question "I am living with my boyfriend. My parents say that I should marry him because I am living in sin. Should I marry him?" His reply is, "Who are you sinning against? Not me, because you have done nothing wrong." Another question asks about God's forgiveness of sin. His reply "I do not forgive anyone because there is nothing to forgive. There is no such thing as right or wrong and that is what I have been trying to tell everyone, do not judge people. People have chosen to judge one another and this is wrong, because the rule is "'judge not lest ye be! j! ! udged.'" And the list goes on.

Not only are these books the false doctrine of devils, but in some instances even quote (in error) the Word of God. These books (and others like it) are being sold to school children (The Scholastic Book Club), and we need to be aware of what is being fed to our children. Our children are under attack. So I pray that you be sober and vigilant about teaching your children the Word of God, and guarding their exposure to worldly mediums, because our adversary, the Devil, roams about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8). And how many of us know that lions usually hunt for the slowest, and weakest and YOUNGEST of its prey. Pass this on to every Believer you know. God bless! And, if in doubt, look at the books yourself< /em>

a word to ya....from me... if this offends you i cannot apologize b/c personally the first couple of paragraphs of the email i received makes me infuriated.

I HAVE NO TOLERANCE FOR IGNORANCE.

please do not forward me anymore email pertaining to the matters of this book or the quotations questioned therein. my god is obviously not the same god as yours and reading the judgemental remarks and statements in this forwarded email only promotes my day to be, to say the least, more unpleasant than usual. my god is a loving god, my god does not judge, my god is a forgiving god, my god is an understanding god, my god loves all.

i very seldom act upon the aggression that stirs in me from some email i receive, but this one hits a huge nerve. for one reason..the subject, "beware of this book for children." i am a mother. i am raising my child to love all people no matter their preference as to whom they have sex with or the color of their skin or the sidetracked past they might have had at one time in their life.

a lot of the information in the email is taken out of context and used in ways to sway one to believe that the book is of false doctrine. well, hmmmm...how many interpretations of the bible are there??? the bible is interpreted in one way or the other every sunday for sure by millions...MILLIONS. not all get the same message from the same passage...so who is right? who is right and who is wrong? no one. i believe no one is wrong. the bible is a book. ok. a book written thousands of years ago pertaining to the ways of life then and the stories and illustrations of that time. we use what we can today to put into our daily lives, but not all of the bible is relevant to our present time. i am not going to go further in the comparison to mother goose and hans christian anderson fairytales and the bible, but open-mindedness...well its just NOT a baptist thing, right?

let people write what they want to write. let people be and believe what they want in religious matters. geesh....at least they are promoting something of worth on faith and religion. or we could just hand out harlequin romance novels to all our third and fourth graders...no god in that. no harm in that. stop degrading peoples faith. it is not black and white. there are so many gray areas in religion that it makes it very hard for someone to say...oh, that is the devil's work. you are going to hell for that. says who? who are you to point out the devil? who are you to decide what is right and wrong in the name of religious beliefs? at least there are people that still believe something. let them be and stop conforming everyone, including our children to be judgemental finger pointers. let them be open-minded, open-hearted, dancing, loving babies. that is what they deserve. the right to be themselves. the freedom to express themselves as who they are and not hide behind a pew and withdrawal themselves because..."oh, i may go to hell for this. go to hell and burn in the pits of fire and hang out with demons and devils and crackheads and killers and druggies and lesbians and gays and interracial couples and theives and babies born out of wedlock and strippers and whores and liars and bastards and couples living together unmarried and having s-e-x for all my eternity"

well, my god is a forgiving and understanding and loving god. thank you for that because if not, well i guess i'd be seein' a whole lot of YOU in HELL.
love, jennifer

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