Friday, October 20, 2006

Jesus in my email

So about a week ago I got this email from my mom. My mom is a religious lady, which doesn't bother me, but this email that she sent me was somewhat disturbing. It was some kind of Jesus chain letter. It talked about how if I don't continue the chain and send the letter to 10 other people including the person who sent it to me, then I don't love Jesus and everyone would know. It used what I considered threatening language to try to guilt trip me into sending out a cheesy Jesus chain letter. Now I got no problem with Jesus, I even consider myself a Christian, but come on! Why would you send something like this to people that you consider your friends and fellow Christians? Its like you're checking in on them or something. "If I don't receive a reply from this Jesus email, then I'll know you didn't send it!" So what? Big fuckin' deal. I didn't send it to anyone. In fact I am now denouncing aggressive Jesus chain letters on the internet for everyone to see. I've known since I got my first real chain letter as a kid that chain letters are gay. "So I gotta retype this and mail it to 10 other people? Screw that, I got video games to play." So by my logic if you are creating Jesus chain letters then you are in some kind of crazy limbo because Jesus and gay don't mix. At least on paper. And it wasn't even a good chain letter either. It was a bunch of stupid animated gifs and shit that someone cut and pasted together. I'm pretty sure an old lady made it since they don't know anything about the internet and a little kid could have made a cooler email than this. And no, I am not ripping on my mom right now. My mom didn't make this chain letter, she just didn't think it through long enough before sending it to me. The other sad thing about this is that I'm sure a bunch of foolish white church people received this email and flipped out. "Oh no! If I don't send this email to 10 other people, everyone will know and I will be kicked out of the church!" Well, I'm pretty sure any church that would kick you out for not sending a Jesus chain letter is not a good church to begin with. Also I'm pretty sure that Jesus doesn't endorse chain letters. They are too gay.

1 comment:

  1. Jeremy,

    don't be afraid to tear into your mom.

    My mom, for example, knows never to send me something stupid like that because I would tell her how stupid she is to her stupid face.

    If you continually remind your mom of when she does stupid things, in time, she will stop doing them.

    It's like training a pet, essentially.

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