Joseph’s Alabaster Box

Mr. Bill O’Reilly is the leading anchor man and commentator on the Fox News Channel. Mr. O’Reilly says what I would say if I could sit in his place. I watch his news cast rerun at 10 P.M. each night before I go to bed. There is some frivolous stuff on the program, and Mr. O’Reilly interrupts his guest commentators so much that I cannot understand what is going on much of the time. I did not realize there were so many beautiful, brainy women in the world, but Mr. O’Reilly seems to have a special talent to discover them. Actually, I like Mr. Hannity better than I like Mr. O’Reilly, but Hannity doesn’t come on during the two hours I can watch tv. Mr. O’Reilly claims to be a powerful man, and I am sure he is.

One of Mr. O’Reilly’s favorite guests is Mr. Dennis Miller. As I understand it, Mr. Miller is a California-based comedian who works in Las Vegas and other places, if you can call what he does “work.” Most comedians are irreverent people who get most of their laughs saying things that are bad. Comedians make much of being immoral. A cousin of mine and his wife visited a night club in Las Vegas to attend a show by Mr. Red Foxx, the junkyard comedian. Mr. Foxx’s monologue was so vile and dirty that my cousin and his wife got up to leave the night club. They were met at the door by a couple of huge, well dressed thugs who told them that no one walks out on Mr. Foxx. They had to take their seats and stay to the end of the show.

Mr. Miller has a quip that is designed to bring down the house, and usually does. This quip is tolerated by Mr. O’Reilly who evidently loves Mr. Miller’s lines because his house is brought down. “For God’s sake” is Mr. Miller’s quip.

One of the Ten Commandments says, “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” This is the third commandment (Exodus 20:7), and carries a severe consequence. Men before whose eyes there is no fear of God are men devoid of wisdom and understanding. Men who defy God are not wise. They are not funny. They bear about them the smoke and smell of burning sulphur. What can we say about a powerful man who claims to be a conservative, and allows such a foolish man to have time on his news program? Mr. O’Reilly shares Mr. Miller’s guilt, not only by condoning him on his show, but by choosing clips from Mr. Miller’s previous performances which have in them Mr. Miller’s wicked profanity.

Ordinary people cannot reason with this sort of self-proclaimed powerful man because he seems to have only contempt for the words of ordinary people. He makes it plain when he is trying to get people to email him that he will have no time to read more than a line or two. Of course, he doesn’t read all this stuff that comes in anyway. I suspect he has a battery of well trained (beautiful, no doubt) women who go through his emails, and pass on to him only those messages that congratulate him, or criticize him in such a way that he can dismiss them down on the air with a comment. I have written him several times about Miller’s profanity without success. I have told him that people down here in the South don’t cotton to people who slander our Father’s Holy name. I have written him like this, “Miller ain’t cool, he sounds like a fool. Using God’s name in vain will only get you pain.”

I have asked people on my email mailing list to write him, and I’m sure some of them have. I am convinced that a true conservative is a moral person: one who holds a high regard for things sacred. A man who is low-down, profane, and so rich he feels spiritually impregnable cannot be a true conservative, in my opinion. In fact, it makes me ashamed to call myself a conservative. The truth is, I think of myself more as a liberal than a conservative, because I am willing to allow other people to worship as they please, speak what they think, and believe what they think is right. Allowing other people to have their rights is liberal. I will do my best to persuade such people to think and behave as civilized people, but I will not attempt to force my values on anyone.

Here’s my latest note to Mr. O’Reilly:
“Mr. O’Reilly,
Why don’t you ask Mr. Miller to change his favorite phrase from “For God’s sake” to “For the Pope’s sake”? I believe that would result in your getting so much mail, you’d have to cut it out. Of course, you could say, “For Allah’s sake,” or “For Moroni’s sake,” but that may cause you to be marked for assassination by a Muslim, or a Mormon. How about this crack, “For Zoroaster’s sake”? The Iranians would drop an atomic bomb on you for that.”

Of course, profaning people’s religion would not please us Southern conservatives, because we would not slander anyone’s religion.

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I do not wish these men any evil, God will take care of that abundantly. I pray for them, that God will send a witness across their paths that will convict them of their sin, and give them the information and wisdom they need to do that which is right.
If you honor the Lord of Glory, and you are offended by people who curse Him, and slander Him, please click here and send Mr. O’Reilly something to think about. You may be the one who crosses his path. (You may have to copy and paste the address.)
oreilly@foxnews.com.