Mad!

Mad! I'm really mad! Waited a couple of days to send this so I wouldn't be so mad! Still mad!!!

Me and Forwards don't get along very well. Oh, I love the funny ones and the inspirational ones are very nice usually but I got one Sat. that blew all the bounds of any forwards I have read. Gullible. I admit that I am gullible but even I began to question this one.

Got a forward titled "Urgent Prayer Request" and, of course, opened it to pray. It was from a very respected pastor who said it was from a respected friend in the ministry. It was supposedly to have been sent by a person whose husband was fighting in Iraq and was suppposedly being sent, with his "group" on what sounded for all the world like a suicide mission. They were told to "call their families to say good bye" (#1 questionable idea). I got horribly upset: either it was a sick, political ruse to discredit our leaders; or it was saying that we were no better than the terrorists. Or it was some sick-o's idea of a joke.

At any rate, the longer i thought about it, the worse I felt. Sure, I prayed hard for the fighting men and women there--probably harder than at other times, more's the pity-- but things just didn't "feel right": know what i mean? The dates were not quite right, the times were off and the whole idea sounded implausable. Why would they be allowed to call about such a mission and why were they going "door-to-door" looking for snipers. Even I know more than that!

Well, by the time The Dad got home from Garage-Saleing, I was really upset and mad. I didn't even give him the chance to take off his coat and gloat over his purchases before I dragged him to the computer to read it and, sure enough, he was about as mad as I was. He shot holes in every sentence of that baby in the e mail he sent back to said pastor and told him best to go back to his usual stance of not sending forwards.

Surprisingly, said pastor wasn't a bit mad at him and told him that it all made perfect sense to him after Larry had explained it. He was going back to his source (who, undoubtedly had to check his source and on and on).

My question is Why, on God's Green Earth, would someone do something so blatantly stupid and mean???!!! People believe this stuff and we Christians are the most gullible people: when someone asks for a prayer, we jump right in. Guess we all have to kick in that gift of discernment even if we aren't blessed with the actual gift, huh?