Why do we do this? Just yesterday my wife received another one of those mass emails calling on Christians to help stop Atheist's attempt to get rid of any television programming that uses the word "God." The title of the letter was "DR DOBSON'S PLEA FOR ACTION." According to the email, "We are praying for at least 1 million signatures. This would defeat their effort and show that there are many Christians alive, well and concerned about our country." Of course it was a hoax which you can read about here.
There are only a few points (rants) I'll make here.
Christian Paranoia
I simply can't imagine what it must be like to carry around this perpetual Christian paranoia that they (the atheists, liberals and aliens) are out to get us; to take away our prayer, bibles and God forbid our TV! To be honest, why do we care? We hardly read our Bibles anyway. I mean, c'mon people - you are embarrassing the rest of us!
I'm beginning to believe that this is true spiritual warfare, having to undergo the insurmountable embarrassment stemming from your unwarranted paranoia. I was an atheist, and this sort of hype never made me tremble with fear that the Christians were mounting a counter-attack. Frankly, it was laughable back then.
Christian, start acting like there IS a GOD, and that He IS SOVEREIGN and that you have NO FEAR because our future is CERTAIN! Our efforts should not be about fighting the aliens but about reaching the lost and proclaiming the Kingdom.
Next rant....
Mass Emailing
This is simple. DON'T DO IT! Just don't. If you must tell somebody, call your mom, a friend, but don't press that send key no matter how deep the temptation (1 Corinthians 10:13).
edit --- If you have an email list of people that you normal send to, please blind copy them (BCC). If you don't know what this means, learn it before sending your group email. Furthermore, give everyone the option of opting out of your list. There, I said it. -- end edit.
end rant.
Oh, by the way, if you pass this message along to 10 other people , an angel will bless you today.