Musings from the Moon

Oh goody, goody, goody, another entry for my “The things that……well…….piss me off section”! I have been waiting for a new one and the universe never fails to provide…….Thank you God, et al

As I have mentioned it a time or two now in my entries, I was baptized and raised Catholic. Not only Catholic, but Roman Catholic. Not only Roman Catholic, but I went to Roman Catholic school, complete with bonifide vipers in penguin suits.

For. Eight. Years.

Between my home life and my school life, the guilt trips that were laid on me between the ages of 6 and 14 would have sunk the Titanic, with or without the glaciers. Glaciers……yeah, there is a parallel there…..that was the temperature that I experienced most in both places……..damn chilly.

And that is my temperature towards the latest email I received this morning.

To wit:

THIS IS PRETTY NEAT,
93 % won’t forward this

When Jesus died on the cross, he was thinking of you!
If you are one of the 7% who will stand up for Him, forward
this.

Why won’t 93% of persons receiving this forward it !?!?!?!?! Because they don’t like DAMN CHAIN LETTER SPAM in general and particularly those that try to GUILT or SCARE you into doing something, which most do….particularly those that have a Christian or Catholic bend.

It is the equivalent of a guilt grenade and who needs that explosion in their mailbox first thing in the morning?

This is my favorite part of that spam:

When Jesus died on the cross, he was thinking of you!
If you are one of the 7% who will stand up for Him, forward
this.

So if I don’t forward this on to 7 new people, plus the one that spamed me, so 8 can know they are being prayed for, I am not standing up for Jesus? Damn, I feel for ya Jesus! It amazes me that your fall from grace could very well be dictated by a chain letter on the world wide web.

And you were worried about Judas!

Gimmie a break.

For those of you who want to crucify ME right about now, feel free. But before you position the first nail I let it be known that I pray, and I pray on a daily basis. I pray for the world, my family, my clients, myself and anyone who sincerely asks me to. It may be to your God or it might not be. Those to whom I pray are a varied bunch, and yes, Jesus actually IS among my posse. I hold the man in the highest regard, but I certainly don’t try to shove him and prayer down someone’s throat by guilt tactics.

Or any other tactic for that matter.

And I don’t think that that is HIS game either.

So I offer up this UNSOLICITED prayer for you today (Bow your heads please):

Our Father who aren’t in heaven the world wide web, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will guilt be done on earth as it is in heaven on the net. Give us this day, our daily bread mail and forgive us our trespassers spammers as we forgive those that trespass spam against us. Lead us not into temptation (to continue to send chain mail) and deliver us from that evil.

AMEN.