CALDONIA

TerriNPA,

I got that same God e-mail and my reply was to quote the verse from Kings 2.2 about the bald headed prophet, who, having been teased by some boys, cursed them in the name of the Lord, who in response sent two she-bears that subsequently devoured 42 children. (Such a heart-warming story of a kind and loving God).

Since then I haven't gotten ONE religious e-mail.

TerriNPA

Thanks, I've been looking for some good bible verses of their "lovin" Gawd... Thought about that one and II Kings 15:16 and the one in Genesis...

::stockpiles verses::

integral domain

What gets me is that cruelty to animals is often used to demonstrate how mean people can be... yet... christians never seem to consider the morality of killing and eating animals.

For example... when I was little I was given a "ten commandments" book with pictures. On the "though shall not kill" page was a picture of a boy with a sling shot aimed at a nest of birds. I thought "but we eat chicken everyday?!"

Also... it's nice how the little boy who was going to torture the birds is made to speak like a little black kid.

Psycho Economist

Found it!
Matthew 4: 1 - 11
Luke 4: 1 - 14

Ensign Steve

GUILTY AS CHARGED! Get this, though. After the respondant told me to "shove my opinions up my ass" I sent her a sincere apology for my breach of Email ettiquite. She accepted my apology, and apologized herself for coming down so hard. Then said something to the affect of "I guess not all atheists are as bad as I thought." Maybe I helped open a mind that day?

On the plus side, everyone else on that distribution list (who cared enough to answer) really liked what I had to say!

Jen

Rhea

NOTE ON E-MAIL ETTIQUETTE:

Look, if you don't want everyone on your list to reply back to everyone else on your list LEARN TO USE THE BLIND CARBON COPY FUNCTION!

Just reading about _your_ breach of ettiquette to hit REPLY ALL just strikes me as the SENDER'S fault. Distribution lists are commonly intended to promote "reply all" responses. Stories of kids, discussions of events, etc. When did Spam get special treatment?

If they don't think you should be replying all, then it is incumbent on THEM to not provide you with an ALL.

Ensign Steve

Reah,

Good point! People should do that anyway, when forwarding spam (as opposed to stories of kids, discussions of events, etc.) because they would expect it to be forwarded over and over, and do you really want your friends' and families' email addresses to be visible in the header of that message?

Tercel

~sigh~ Not this myth again... to debunk it for the umpteenth time:
The dark ages began when the Christian Western Roman Empire fell to non-Christian invaders. It was the fall of Christianity and the government associated with it that caused the dark ages. Christianity later re-emerged in Western Europe and England re-establishing civilization and bringing to power out of the dark ages the Christian colonial nations of England, France, Spain etc.
The Eastern half of the Roman Empire never had any dark ages, by contrast, as Christian rule continued unbroken until it was conquered by the Muslim invaders.

I recognise several of those as claims that have been thoroughly debunked here before, so I don't hold out much hope that the others have merit.
But in my experience you "skeptics" will gullibly swallow anything so long as it's anti-Christian, so the truth probably doesn't matter.

Mad Kally

I used to be on those godSpam lists. Then I started sending this and clicking reply all. Guess what? Total silence! This was written by Dale McGowan.

GOD HATES CHAIN MAIL

This Is Amazing But True! Please forward it to as many people as you can ! IT WORKS!!

This message has been around the world six times. It was started in Buenos Aires,
Argentina by a Catholic nun named Sister Anita Margarita and is intended to bring this
message to the world:

STOP FORWARDING INANE E-MAIL CRAP
OR VERILY GOD WILL LOP PARTS OF YOU CLEAN OFF.

Miss Veronica Smoots of Brooklyn received this message and forwarded it right away to two friends. Her hands fell off immediately. A Mr. Heckeldorf of Munich did not forward the message for over a week, during which time he won the lottery four times. Then he finally forwarded it and his shoulders fell off, and also his lap. Mrs. Emily Kirkland of Seattle, Washington received the message and didn't forward it, but her legs fell off anyway --- apparently a clerical error, which was caught right away and her legs fell back on, plus she got a set of valuable coupons in the mail.

>>If you forward this message to five people, five parts will fall off, like your ears, eyes
and nose.

>>If you forward it to fifty people...well, no one knows what happens then. Can't be good.

>>If you forward it to exactly seventeen people, for some reason, someone will bring you
a double layer cake --- but then your lips fall off, like the next day. But the cake is really
good.

If you don't send it at all, amazing things start happening! Several red cars will drive by
your house within 24 hours. Your phone will ring and someone will call you BY NAME and ask if you need vinyl siding. You will get sick, and then not be sick anymore. Within the next few months you will go to the mailbox and learn that you may have won ten million dollars! This is absolutely true, try it! I don't know how it works, but it does.

Tercel

LOL! Kelly, I can't stop laughing. That's brilliant!