FCC To Ban Religious e-mail!

WARNING!!! The FCC plans to ban religious e-mail! Godly people must act fast to head this off or we will lose our right to express our religious convictions over the Internet. We have only two weeks to respond to the proposed rule, so e-mail your opinion immediately to the FCC at [email protected] and send this e-mail to all of your friends!

I'm lying. I made it all up. I know, it's a dangerous thing to do. Sure enough, right now, there is someone somewhere in the world busily copy-n-pasting the first paragraph into an e-mail to ten thousand of their friends. Next week it will probably show up in a couple hundred church bulletins. And once it is printed there, it will never get stomped out.

Are you tired of all the emergency alerts you now get VIA e-mail? I am. Did you get the one about the Social Security Checks that had been mistakenly distributed, requiring a mark on the payee's right hand or forehead? (False.) Or, how about the call to flood CBS for deciding to show X-rated movies during prime time? (Also false.) How about the alert on the computer dubbed The Beast that is located in Belgium? The Beast is connected to a powerful laser beam and now is able to tattoo the forehead of every human on earth simultaneously VIA satellite. (Still false, after all these years.) The most amazing recent vigilant E-Mails tell me that Madalyn Murray O'Hair is proposing this or that to some government agency. If so, she's come back to life. Madalyn Murray O'Hair is dead.

So when I get wacky E-mail alerts, I usually just delete them, (unless I'm looking for entertainment). Why? For three reasons:

1. Truth.
Most aren't true. I want to value truth more than this. I wish people would check on their veracity before forwarding them. That would limit the spam-alerts. But most don't. Why? Could it be that they want them to be true. They're afraid they might turn out to be false. Sort of like some preacher's illustrations -- they are so effective that their truth is not relevant. Face it, some forms of Christianity (and some leaders) require a dangerous visible