A couple months ago, I received the following email:
Hi Cardigan:
I would love to hear that you have ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart and save you. He loves you. He died on the cross so that you could go to heaven only for the asking. Isn't that awesome? Ask him to forgive you of your sins and believe in him and you can go to heaven.
This is just one of many similar missives I've received over the years. And for the life of me, I just can't get over the gall of the people who send these types of messages.
Nor can I understand the mentality of a person who would drop into a chatroom specifically for atheists and begin to tell them that they're all going to hell, or some such thing. Yet this happens all the time.
It's fine for a theist to read these articles and email me their comments on the specific subjects. I welcome such comments and usually enjoy the discussion that follows.
But I do not welcome, nor appreciate, this sort of blanket proselytizing.
I would never enter a Christian chatroom and tell everyone that their beliefs are based on a fairy tale. Nor would I ever email the owner of a Christian website and tell them that I hope they have a sudden insight into reason and cast off their religious brainwashing.
I am simply not that rude.
Many Christians, on the other hand, seem to revel in this type of antisocial behavior. I don't understand it, but I'm also not surprised by it. The rudest people I've ever met in my entire life have been self-avowed Christians. Nothing they do anymore surprises me.
I just wish they'd do it elsewhere.
