brighid

I got some crap from my mother and her husband - some friggin poem – about how children aren’t allowed to pray in America and how everything is so horrible because the student’s aren’t allowed to pray. There was even a line in there about a single mother (ah – just like me, her daughter) being prom queen and what a poor and immoral example that was! And if I had to courage to say that I LOVE JESUS and pass it on!

I wrote her and her lovely husband back with a poem of my own creation about the diversity in my son’s class and how was one to come up with a prayer that covers all the religions (and irreligious) in his class, how the ban on public supported prayer never stopped a student from praying before an exam, or after a touchdown, etc. And reminded them of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, pointed out the Virginia Freedom of Religion Act, and many quotes from our founding fathers, the history of the persecution of Christians by other Christians, and kindly asked them to respect the known fact that I am not a Christian and I don’t appreciate being sent this kind of dribble, unless of course they would like to make all things fair and allow me to send them some “alternative” literature about theism, etc. I was met with a response that my mother is sick of being called a bigot and ignorant and being persecuted because of her Catholicism and that I can’t see the “forest fore the trees!” There was some ridiculous comment about how I should study the Bible and other religions more, which I retorted with the challenge to a discussion about the finer points of Catholicism and other faiths with the gentle reminder that I am a worthy opponent and they should not underestimate me and that my mother should know better then to argue so poorly with me! Neither has accepted the challenge and this was almost two years ago!


brighid

Clarice

Wow. So typical.

Mom: "Even though I know you're an atheist, I want you to read this religious material - I hope it will convert you!"

Brighid: "Please respect me enough not to send me this kind of thing anymore."

Mom: "Stop persecuting me!"

Yeah, brighid, stop this insane pogrom directed at your mother, already! How can you inflict such cruelty on her?

Mad Kally

Just copy and paste this:

Subject: GOD HATES CHAIN LETTERS

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.

JL

<img src="graemlins/notworthy.gif" border="0" alt="[Not Worthy]" />

babelfish

I know I'm weird, but I actually secretly sort of enjoy getting godspam from my two sisters who are trying to convert me. Probably for the same reason that I listen to Christian Radio. It makes me feel so incredulous and superior at the same time.

brighid

Yeap - it's kinda like watching Jerry Springer and realizing your life isn't so bad after all!

Brighid

karlvonl

ROTFL!

callina

Mad Kally is Evil.
(I hope she takes the compliment as warmly as it has been given)

I have now sent my first chain letter, but I only sent it to two people and I've already seen a red car drive by my house, so I think that I'm safe. But, I really like cake...

Jewel

Mad Kally,

Thanks, I needed that! I'm at work and while reading your post I nearly hurt myself by trying not to laugh out loud.


brighid,

I was talking to my mom the other day and she complained that when she recently sent my oldest brother(he's pagan)one of those religious chain letters and he wrote her back an ear full. She, of course, was quite offended at his response and acted like she thought he would like it (she know's he's pagan). She couln't understand why he didn't just delete it if he didn't like it. She is one of those that feels persecuted when asked to repect other people's beliefs . I don't get it. I'm glad she didn't send that garbage to me, although she probably figured I would out debate her, as I have many times before. And that she would deserve it for violating our treaty .

-jewel

brighid

JewelC – My mom is the same way. She feels completely justified in sending me Christmas cards about JESUS and crap with Bible passages on it – but oh my goodness – if I sent her one of those heretic cards or Have a Happy Yule and Blessed Be kind of card – she would absolutely burst a vein in her forehead prior to exploding into some nonsensical tirade about “blasphemy” “abomination onto God” and all that other bullshit.

When my son has visited in the past she takes him to Church and when I have asked her not to in the future she gets all indignant, like I must be some sort of lunatic to ask her NOT to take my son to Sunday mass. I asked her if it would then be OK to take my step-sister to a Wiccan ceremony honoring the goddess or to attend a function teaching atheism. She promptly shut the hell up.

She is completely unwilling to understand that Jesus is offensive to those who don’t believe in him, or that it’s completely ignorant and bigoted to take about how black people walk like apes and all the other lovely racist nonsense she spews (all the while having a grandchild – my son- that is BIRACIAL). But of course – she doesn’t think of him as ‘black!” And sees nothing wrong with this!!

Brighid