Over the last few weeks I've been caught up in some fairly stressful and public flames around sending "Christian" spam mail.
I thought I would post the *definitive* article on the subject as a cathartic measure and to help educate and start a dialogue on how the Christian can deal with it.
Christian spam mail is a form of digital self-persecution, we hurt ourselves by continually and blindly sending whatever drops into our inbox to everyone else in our address book.
Things to think about before forwarding on that message:
1) Is it true?
Yesterday I received an email provocatively entitled "REMOVAL OF JOYCE MEYER AND OTHER PASTORS FROM THE AIRWAVES!". Inside is the very detailed description (they are always very detailed) of FCC submission 2493 which would "ultimately pave the way to stop the reading of the gospel of our Lord and Savior, on the airwaves of America."
A very quick google on the matter turns up this page on the FCC website no less http://www.fcc.gov/mb/enf/forms/rm-2493.html stating that it is a hoax that has been perpetuated since 1975!
It's sad that for more that 30 years we have been kicking this piece of rubbish around, what does that say to the world? Christians are just reactionaries who will believe anything.
2) Does it have integrity?
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3) Is it edifying?
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4) Do you have permission to send this to someone?
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