Yesterday the committee for the Academy Awards (the Oscars) rescinded the nomination for best song for the song "Alone, Yet Not Alone." The song was a Christian song from a Christian movie sung by Christian singer/author/speaker Joni Eareckson Tada. Joni is a quadriplegic who serves God faithfully despite her disability. The reason given for the song's disqualification was that the song's producer sent out emails asking Academy voters to consider the song. Really? Every year Hollywood production companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to host gala events for voters in order to get there movie noticed. They have been known to give gift bags (bribes) to Academy members in order to gain their attention. This song was disqualified because one man sent emails asking members to consider the song? Sigh. What can we say? Darkness loves darkness and darkness hates light!
Today I met a man in Israel I will never forget. Fifteen years ago he was voting in a primary for candidates of the Likud party. At the polling station, two Palestinian terrorists burst in upon the crowd who were choosing their candidate for the next election. They sprayed the crowd with automatic gunfire. Seven people fell to the floor, wounded by the barrage. The terrorists moved among the fallen, stopping to shoot each one between the eyes to make sure that they were dead. Six people died that day. Today I met the seventh. He was wounded four times in the initial burst of gunfire - once in each leg, once in the arm and once in the side. The terrorists then put a gun two feet from his face and put a bullet between his eyebrows. I saw the deep scar with my own eyes. The next year he spent in a coma. Today I met him at the little restaurant he owns outside the gates of the ancient ruins of Beth She'an. He stood in f...
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