Now and them, I dip into the Hate Mail bin over the FSM site just to see what's what. It's often a very illuminating glimpse into the minds of certain kinds of people. Generally the mail comes in one of two flavors, people who have lost even basic credulity and can't recognize an obvious joke:
How can you idiots belive this stupid religion? You idiot taoist won’t believe Christianity because of eternal judgement, but you’ll believe a bunch of crackheads that think a stupid ball of spaghetti with meatballs created the universe? If that’s your logic on this subject, you belong with these moronic crackheads.
I can't figure if they are religious because they just have a low credulity threshold, or if they are credulous because they are religious. Kind of amusing in the way it's amusing to watch global warming denialists wrestle with facts.
The other big grouping centers around people who, for whatever reason, take personal offense. They then, almost always, threaten to use magical powers to invoke sky-father to do various kinds of smiting:
You have caught my attention Bobby Henderson. You know what you’re doing. You don’t believe any of this, but since you’ve decided to make a war against Jesus, then, let it begin. My campaign against you begins now. You aren’t going to remain unopposed any longer.
It would be slightly more honest, although much more revealing, if this poster capitalized the M in "my".
I suppose this is a self-selected group, motivated to write by their limited worldview, leaving the vast majority of folks to chuckle and move on. Still, I find it pretty surprising that so many folks don't get the joke on such a fundamental level.
Ramen.
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FSM is so much fun to read I have it added to my feed-reader... just below your blog. =D
The two examples you gave were actually two of the "more coherent" posts submitted recently. The typical FSM hate mail is filled with spelling and grammatical errors which sometimes make it a chore to read. Some of these people usually admit, with much pride, to being home schooled which just makes it too easy for the responders when they pick apart their email. They also usually end their hate filled diatribe with "love" or "god bless".
It would be nice to see a few of these "more intelligent" hate mailers to return and answer some of the questions posed about their religions (mostly xians) but unfortunately I have yet to see anyone return to defend themselves.
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