Salvation spam

It was bound to happen, wasn't it--someone touting salvation via spam?

My first experience with it arrived tonight in a message I've [artfully?] rearranged as found poetry, complete with spelling and grammar errors:

Eternity is a really
long time.If you or someone close
to you has not
accepted GOd please
do so tody. The following
prayer can save
you or someone that you love.


Those three sentences say much about the normative culture's attitude toward God, salvation, and faith.

I laughed out loud to think a prayer [or anything else I could say or do] could complete/restore/make me whole. Only the Holy One, the great I AM, can do that, and s/he doesn't need my prayer to make it happen.

.: Posted by Duane Bidwell on Tuesday, June 22, 2004

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