2007-12-04 02:47:48 · 47 answers · asked by Linz VT•AM 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
LOL you guys are cracking me up.
2007-12-04 02:55:48 · update #1
Sen B, its my work email. I didn't give it to anyone. They type my name in and voila.
2007-12-04 03:06:58 · update #2
lol I have the same problem at my work. I just delete them and move on with my day. Most of them have something funny attached. Like the beginning will be a funny joke to distract you from the fact that they are pushing their religion down your throat. Mary Poppins did say that "a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down" in this case I believe the medicine may be lies piled on lies with a dash of mind control. lol.
2007-12-04 05:26:02 · answer #1 · answered by Lorena 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You're lucky, in a way. From 1998 to 2007 I lived in southern Mississippi. In all that time I told almost no one that I was an atheist; only my very closest friends. Religious fundamentalism is huge there- homosexuals, interracial couples, etc, still live in very real fear of persecution and actual bodily harm. I was well-known and well-liked at the hospital where I worked. A by-product of that popularity was the daily onslaught of religious chain mails, prayer requests, and insipid angel pictures in my email inbox. I never said a word to ANYONE about them. To do so would have been career suicide. Only two people at the hospital knew my deep dark secret. Everyone else thought I was an exemplary Christian- after all, I was kind, happy, outgoing, and always involved in one volunteer group or another. Atheists aren't supposed to be any of those things- they're supposed to be cold, calloused, miserable people with bitter tongues and dead hearts. If it had gotten out that I am an atheist, I would have been run out of my job. Not by the formal channels; my boss and the hospital management wouldn't have cared less. But my co-workers would have made life in the department so inhospitable that I would have eventually been forced to leave. I find that particularly disturbing when you consider how much they liked the person they THOUGHT I was... they begged me not to leave and I still get calls and emails from them to chat about the latest happenings. So in a sense I envy your ability to just tell it like it is. Many people live and work in situations where they must hide their real selves away from even their own family and friends.
2016-05-28 03:29:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come on Linz- you know it's true. Oh Wait you don't believe in God. Send them messages about how God doesn't exist and how they have been duped into believing in some imaginary guy who rules their life. If nothing else you are giving them a taste of what they are giving you.
That would annoy me so I don't tell others that their beliefs or lack of are wrong. If they ask me questions about my faith than I will answer and try to be as kind as I can in the Answer, but I won't run around telling Atheists that they better repent.
Edit**
Even though I am Christian, some of those emails annoy me too. I know God loves me, I don't need to forward on some stupid poem to tell everyone that I know that.
2007-12-04 03:22:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have a friend who sends me e-mails like that daily. We've never talked about our beliefs so she doesn't know I disagree with hers. I know she means well so I just ignore and delete them.
It's funny what the e-mails say, too. It's always something along the lines of "If you love Jesus, pass this on. If you don't, then just delete it." It amuses me because the writer is so clearly trying to make non-Christians feel like bad people for not forwarding their spam.
If it bothers you enough, I would ask them to stop. If it's just a minor annoyance, I would ignore it and not cause a fuss about it.
2007-12-04 03:31:42 · answer #4 · answered by Christy ☪☮e✡is✝ 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would bring up the fact that there is a time and a place for proseltyzing and work is neither the time nor the place. Your work email is for business, not that crap. Tell them and if it continues tell your supervisor and keep going higher up until something is done.
Or you can do what I do and when you keep getting emails like that that are persistant write back "Thanks, Loki loves you too!"
2007-12-04 03:29:46 · answer #5 · answered by Abriel 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When my family does that, I just delete them, but at work, it's inappropriate for them to be sending them.
If you work for a large company or a franchise, they probably have a policy against that sort of thing already. You might reply to such emails with a copy of the policy.
You have to decide whether it's annoying enough to warrant further action.
2007-12-04 02:53:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
I just create a rule to delete forwarded emails from said person.
2007-12-04 03:01:25 · answer #7 · answered by Holy Cow! 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I get so many, but still I just delete them. Or, since most of my friends around here are god-fearing alcatholics, I will send them the ones I know they would like. If I get them back, then I delete them!
2007-12-04 02:56:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
That's incredibly inappropriate for them to do that. I'm quite certain that goes against any workplace rules. Obviously it's probably not a big enough deal to report them over, but it still shows a level of bad judgment that is pretty amazing. Tell them you don't believe in their god and you'll see them in hell!
2007-12-04 03:15:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
This too used to drive me crazy, I would send them back asking them not to send or reply with my own beliefs..this made no difference they would still send them.. I believe telling them made them even more persistant in trying to save my soul.. so to speak :)
now I just hit delete or if it is possible block that person.. it usually very much against company policies to send religious e-mails...
2007-12-04 03:13:01 · answer #10 · answered by witchrhiannon62 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋