Got this clunky, unsolicited email recently from a Bible believer (or someone pretending to be one).

Try not to gag and/or giggle:

"Greetings from bethlehem [uncapitalized for some reason],

"I thought you might be interested to know that we have a web site [misconstructed word] dedicated to HolyLand Gifts & Crafts [miscombined word, plus link deleted here].

"We are a Christian family owned company [misconstructed word] inspired with deep religious feelings and a desire to awaken spiritual rebirth and awareness.

"We are aware of the economic challenges our people face of a charged political, religious and economical climate [should be "uneconomical"]. This unstable situation and lack of tourism is causing many Christian families to loose [misspelled word] their source of income and to leave the country.

"Last century the Christian population of the HolyLand [miscombined word] was 30%, today [needs capitalization or at least a preceding semicolon] it is less than 2%. With every Christian family leaving, the pressure becomes heavier on those who choose to stay.

"As part of the suffering, the Christians in Bethlehem and the HolyLand [miscombined word] need your help and support at this time. We ask you to stand in solidarity with those who are willing to stay in there [misspelled] home [should be plural] and be witnesses for Jesus Christ.

"We are not asking for donations [no period or subsequent capitalization in this run-on sentence] we are only asking you to help by purchasing pieces of those beautiful religious crafts through this website [Which pieces? Why can't we buy a whole piece?]

"We Can [incorrectly capitalized] also supply you with our holyland Products [both miscombined and incorrectly capitalized words] at wholesale prices, Most of our products are hand made [faulty word construction] with great care from our workshops [hopefully made with greater care than has been shown in the crafting of this letter].

"You can check out our wholesale Page [incorrectly capitalized] at Main Website [Jesus H. Christ, but I'll let that one pass], dont [needs an apostrophe] hesitate to contact me [needs a period before 'dont,' along with follow-up capitalization to indicate a new sentence].

"If you'd like to discuss anything or have any questions, please feel freely [doesn't need the "ly"] to contact me at [email deleted here] would love to chat with you and build long term [misconstructed word] relationship [incomplete and incorrectly capitalized sentence].

"God bless you!
Thank You
[name deleted here]"
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God bless you in your search for a long-suffering grade school.



Edited 14 time(s). Last edit at 12/12/2010 06:18PM by steve benson.

""We are aware of the economic challenges our people face of a charged political, religious and economical climate [should be "uneconomical"]. This unstable situation and lack of tourism is causing many Christian families to loose [misspelled word] their source of income and to leave the country."

Must be liars. Why would Christians want to leave Israel? It's a magical, spiritual place, after all. The only working democracy, with western values of equality, in the entire Middle East, and a beacon of light to the world.

God's chosen Jewish Israelis love and nourish diversity, and help their Christian brothers as much as possible.

At least, that's what the Israeli government likes to say...

For every genuine article you will always find multiple counterfeits. THAT SOME CHARITIES ARE PATHETIC AND GREEDY DOES NOT MEAN THAT THEY ARE ALL THAT WAY. Really mostly a common sense, buyer beware matter.

Here is an example: We can all find a journalist (or several)with an agenda, who is unfair. Does that mean all journalists are like that? Ditto lawyers, doctors, etc.

. . . those worshipping in Christian pews today are sadly sporting "heads of straw" if they actually, seriously believe Christianity (like Mormonism and all other cult-rooted religious fantasies) isn't a superstition-based form of primitive belief that in the modern world is both big-time irrational and in it for the big-time bucks.

Amazing--ain't it?--how some folks can jump from one mega-myth into another of equal direputableness through the greatest of ease--with their bank accounts open and their eyes closed. Now, THAT'S a miracle.

Indeed, a major reason why so-called "contemporary" Christianity is today not considered by most to be the pre-Enlightenment cult that it was correctly viewed as back when it sprung up among the uneducated is because of the long passage of time, combined with short-term human memory.

A basic explanation for this otherwise head-scratchin' phenomenon of ongoing, factless, faith-based, non-original, non-genuine Christian cult worship is that Christianity's cultish roots have retreated from view (but not from humankind's recorded annals) into the mists of history where most of its contemporary followers choose not to go for adventurous, myth-exploding fact hunting into how it all began):

" . . . Early Christianity itself developed as one of several monotheistic cults, and it was in this period that the concept of 'pagan' developed in the first place.

"Christianity as it emerged out of Second Temple Judaism (or Hellenistic Judaism) stood in competition with other religions advocating 'pagan monotheism,' including Neoplatonism, Mithraism, Gnosticism, Manichaeanism, and the cult of Dionysus. . . .

"Dionysus in particular exhibits significant parallels with Christ, so that numerous scholars have concluded that the recasting of Jesus the wandering rabbi into the image of Christ the Logos, the divine saviour, reflects the cult of Dionysus directly. They point to the symbolism of wine and the importance it held in the mythology surrounding both Dionysus and Jesus Christ;[. . . .] Wick argues that the use of wine symbolism in the Gospel of John, including the story of the Marriage at Cana at which Jesus turns water into wine, was intended to show Jesus as superior to Dionysus. . . . The scene in The Bacchae wherein Dionysus appears before King Pentheus on charges of claiming divinity is compared to the New Testament scene of Jesus being interrogated by Pontius Pilate. . . .

"For these reasons, it is difficult if not impossible to draw a clear line between 'Christianity' and 'Paganism' for the period of the 3rd to 4th centuries when Christianity was in its formative phase. Only with the emergence of Orthodox Christianity as reflected in the Apostle's Creed and the final decline of Hellenistic paganism by the 6th century does 'paganism' become a concept clearly distinct from Christianity."

(TS Eliot, "The Hollow Men," in "Art of Europe," at: http://www.artofeurope.com/eliot/eli2.htm ; and "Paganism," at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism)
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Strawmen, Mormonmen/Moonmen, Christianmen/Drink-the-Blood-of-Christ-and-Eat-His-Fleshmen, indeed.

Praise the Lord and pass the tithing envelope/collection plate.

In the meantime, the suffering for Christ continues in Bethlehem, in Salt Lake City, in . . .

:)



Edited 33 time(s). Last edit at 12/12/2010 10:51PM by steve benson.

I really don't understand the religious sentiment in people at all.

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