God damn it.
By Vincent Truman On March 29th, 2006Ever see this bulletin on myspace?
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Subject: God
Body: I’m curious as to who really believes in God on myspace??
There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in God, then repost this and title the bulletin as “God”. if you don’t believe in God, then just ignore this.
In the Bible Jesus says…”If you deny me before man, I will deny you before my Father in Heaven.”
Honestly how long is this gonna take…30seconds
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I always get pissed off when I see this bulletin and I share the reason with whoever posts it – and now it’s your turn:
It’s not enough for the original author to encourage a bulletin train based on belief – that’s all fine and dandy – but in one line, it’s “there’s no bribe or miracle” and a couple lines later, there’s the implied threat of “if you deny me, I’ll deny you.” And that is followed by the come-on-buddy challenge of “honestly how long is this gonna take… 30 seconds”.
It pisses me off because it plays on fear and insecurity instead of warmth and love and respect. It’s a real curious – well, shitty – way to convince someone to repost a bulletin on a web site.
I think the god bulletins should ask for people to put their full name, address, phone number, blood type, mother’s maiden name and social security numbers in the bulletins. Of course no one would use this information against them, not if the reposters had real faith, right?
