Joyce Minor, who served as assistant director of Development and Alumni Relations at the University of Alabama School of Law, made some interesting observations. When she attended a high-school football game that was covered by local and national news, it was not about the football teams, but instead about the defiance of a court order by one little Texas town to preserve the right to pray before a game. She wrote, "The more this country struggles to free itself from religion, the more we become entangled in the consequences. If people are taught that they came from slime, the obvious questions and consequences must follow."
Minor acknowledged that in any given poll, the vast majority of Americans claim to believe in God. "I claim to believe that running is good for me, but that does not make me a runner. Putting on my running shoes and running makes me a runner. The climbing abortion rate, murder rate, divorce rate, alcoholism and drug abuse rate, child and spousal abuse rate contradict that claim and prove that actions speak louder than words."
She also said, "For those who believe that separation of church and state is not enough, that the world would be better off with no church at all, ask yourself this question: How many hospitals, universities, orphanages, homeless and abuse shelters have been founded by the ACLU or American Atheist Society? It is the inclusion of the word Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Jewish, Christian, etc., in the name of so many of these institutions that proves by actions, not just words, who really cares for the suffering of mankind and desires to make the world better."
Zig Ziglar
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