Here’s a little known fact about me that you wouldn’t probably know unless you’ve been within 5 feet of me while I’ve been reading email. I get witnessed to via emails from my MIL. I call these emails from the MIL witnessing because, usually, the better-half doesn’t get all the religious ones. I suppose she feels comfortable with his moral and Christian views since she helped formed them. I hate to inform her of this but whatever my moral and religious views are, they aren’t going to be changed by a chain email. I prefer to think things over, do some research and then think things over some more before I adopt a philosophy.
My MIL frequently sends out thousands of cute emails and then some really Christian emails. The kind of Christian emails that Dubya probably loves. The kind that are small-minded and float the idea that Jesus really doesn’t want us to love thy neighbor and be good to those that aren’t as fortunate as we are. You know the kind. The kind that tell us to hate anyone that doesn’t worship at the baptistchristianpresbyterian church down on the corner.
That’s exactly what I remember from Sunday school. I think that stuff about loving thy neighbor, helping others and turning the other cheek are things we learn in Sunday school because as everyone knows it is better to say the complete opposite to kids because they are going to go out and do the opposite of what you told them anyway. That whole reverse psychology thing, ya know?
The latest one that sparked a short response to the great populous known as “Reply All” (Reply All is one of those things I hate. In this case I wanted everyone on that list to know that I’m not a member of their party). My response was short, polite and truthful. Yet again the email was about how someone (in this case the ACLU) is shooting down the entire Christian religion and the military (two hot topics combined into one–a big tip-off that the internet may not be telling you the truth).
Last time I checked the CL in ACLU stood for Civil Liberties. Yeah, they are the people that ensure that you have the right to worship wherever and whatever you want, among other things. So, it is highly unlikely that the ACLU would come out with a statement that says people in the military can’t pray. Especially those people in the military that are being shot at.
As you can tell I’ve been set off this morning. It pains me that the MIL has the tools right there on her desktop to find out if the emails she gets contains any sort of truth but instead she passes it along to a bunch of like-minded people and then the twisted view of the world continues. We wonder what’s wrong with our world right now and I point to this instance as what’s wrong. Instead of figuring out what’s really truth we just choose to sit back and rely on our stereotypes.