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i_love_freddieGreat, so the crazy people just won't leave me alone, it seems. Woke up to this email in my inbox this morning:
Have fun burning in hell then. If eternal damnation is what you want, then ask and you shall receive.
(friend's name - edited for privacy) is a liar and a cheat and a slut and a whore. She won't admit the things she's done but when we were friends year ago she confessed numerous secrets to me. If you wish to keep friends like that about you, then that's your choice.
And yes, anything or anyone that does not follow His divine plan will end up rotting in hell for all eternity. You people are an insult to the human race. No wonder we're becoming extinct.
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Yeah, okay. Someone needs to take a few deep breaths and chill out a little. Seriously. And go re-read the bible... you know, Judge not lest ye be judged and Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. The guy who wrote this pleasant and charming email is far from perfect and has screwed up big time in the past, but because he has "repented and turned his life around" apparently that seems to give him the right to judge everyone else.
By the way, when he says that us people are an insult to the human race, he means gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Guess that means there will be a lot of us down in hell then, so at least we can have one awesome party!
Edit: I just read through that email again... we are becoming extinct? Since when? That's news to me.
What does make me a little bit sad - and I know there are a couple of people who are going to tell me off for saying this - is that the guy who wrote this email (and others before it, this wasn't the only one) was once a friend of mine. Now that was several years ago and I admit I don't remember him too well, but I do know that he was nothing like this then. Back then it was actually possible to talk to him about stuff without being judged or having a religious rant shoved down your throat. You could have a laugh with him and he was fun to talk to. Back then he was actually human like the rest of us.
And I admit that while he was a total asshole at the end (he just cut off all his old friends and disappeared for three years), at times I have thought about him and wondered how he was doing, and yeah, I guessed I missed him at times. But I do not like who he has become now, not at all. And in a way, I wish he had never started emailing us again... because in doing this, he has damaged any good memories that I ever had about him. I wasn't exactly going to forgive him for disappearing, because that is a nasty thing to do to your friends, but I didn't hate him. Now I do... in the same way that I hate anyone who passes judgement on others.
This is why I hate religious fanatics. I firmly believe that everyone is entitled to believe what they want to believe. I have my own beliefs - just not in a God or Heaven and Hell or any of that... I've always tried to keep an open mind about the possiblilty of a higher power but that changed when my granddad died. Personally I don't see how any decent God could allow a good man like my granddad to die, and at the same time allow people like M to walk around hurting others with no consequences. But that is just me. I know many people with all kinds of different beliefs and I completely respect them, just as I expect mine to be respected. It can also be really interesting to learn about what other people think and believe.
What I absolutely hate is people who try to shove their own beliefs down other people's throats, and anyone who tries to use religion to justify judging others or treating them badly. Those people absolutely disgust me.
I know someone who was raised as a Catholic and is gay. He doesn't believe for a minute that he will be damned because of what he is - because he believes that God loves all his children. When the subject comes up, he often says "If God wanted me to be straight, he would have made me attracted to women and not men."
Personally I think that is the kind of attitude that people like the guy who wrote that email could really learn from. Sadly, as much as I like to think that maybe one day he'll take a look at himself in the mirror and see what a hypocritical, judgemental, self-righteous idiot he has become, I'm not convinced that it will ever happen.
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Date: 2009-06-01 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-31 09:08 pm (UTC)Also, humans are becoming extinct?! Seriously?! How many billions of us are there exactly? *rolls eyes*
Tigers, cheetahs, lions, elephants, etc are becoming extinct. Not humans.
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Date: 2009-06-06 02:25 am (UTC)And yeah, the humans becoming extinct thing made me think WTF?
His emails make me wish I could reach through my monitor and punch him in the face, to be honest. And I am not generally a violent person.
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Date: 2009-05-31 10:50 pm (UTC)Wow... these cold meds a really fucking with my head...
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Date: 2009-06-01 08:15 pm (UTC)I think the drugs fucked up his brain...
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Date: 2009-06-01 08:38 am (UTC)The guy needs to get a grip
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Date: 2009-06-01 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-03 04:08 pm (UTC)I think if anything ever put me off the idea of becoming religious, it's the idea of having to share a piece of my heaven with jerks like that.
Maybe if there is a god, they should be more careful about who they allow to represent them, if they want to earn any sort of respect from the human race.
If heaven is meant to be a vision of perfection, then my idea of heaven is definately one without people like him.
Work that one out God.
Homosexuality FTW!
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Date: 2009-06-06 02:28 am (UTC)I agree with you 100%, though you probably already knew that. If heaven involves spending eternity with people like that, I'd take hell any day. Besides, all the fun and interesting people are going to hell anyway... we can have great fun down there!