Incredible

I just got this incredible quote in an e-mail. So without further ado, the quote:
This is a comment from Ben Stein
> Read Slowly
>
> Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my
> beating heart: I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I
> see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my
> dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the
> grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who
> are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they
> have broken up? Why are they so important?
>
> I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I do not care at all
> about Tom Cruise's wife.
>
> Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a
> subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are.
>
> If this is what it means to be no longer young, it's not so bad.
>
> Next confession:
> 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 creche, 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 Nick and Jessica 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 Nick and Jessica
> 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 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 recently) 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 OK.
>
> 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 e nough, 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.
>
> Are you laughing?