Questionable chain letter

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I received a chain letter, which I usually discard without any regard whatsoever.

BUT this one had images of Christ, stock every day stuff seen just about anywhere. And it challenged the receiver to forward this to 12 people OR you would be denying Christ, and everyone knows what that means…

Against my better judgement I forwarded that to others…

I know it is not true, that Jesus does not judge us based on sending out 12 emails with images of Him…

Would you have just ignored the chain letter or would you have forwarded it to 12 others, knowing that you are placing them in a moral dilemma that is both unfair and not true ???

I thought it was quite a diabolical chain letter… seemingly innocent enough but as with many chain letters such things can literally crash the internet with junk mail.
 
I don’t forward e-mails that have dire warning that bad things will happen to you if you don’t forward them unless they are a joke. I have forward chain letters that make fun of chain letters.

Occasionally there is a chain letter that is attractive in some way. For instance your picture of Christ might have been worth sending on. In which case, I delete the message or the part of the message I disagree with and send it on.
 
Jesus doesn’t need spam from me to prove He is important to me. I hate those e-mails and I don’t much appreciate people who send them to me. :rolleyes:
 
wcknight said:
I received a chain letter, which I usually discard without any regard whatsoever.

BUT this one had images of Christ, stock every day stuff seen just about anywhere. And it challenged the receiver to forward this to 12 people OR you would be denying Christ, and everyone knows what that means…

Against my better judgement I forwarded that to others…

I know it is not true, that Jesus does not judge us based on sending out 12 emails with images of Him…

Would you have just ignored the chain letter or would you have forwarded it to 12 others, knowing that you are placing them in a moral dilemma that is both unfair and not true ???

I thought it was quite a diabolical chain letter… seemingly innocent enough but as with many chain letters such things can literally crash the internet with junk mail.
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DELETE ALL chain letters. The most despicable ones are those using Jesus or Mary to manipulate you. They are not innocent. They are diabolical. That’s Satan deceiving us.
 
I don’t forward chain letters with those stupid conditions threatening woe if you don’t, simply because they feed on superstition, and superstition is wrong. If forwarded out of belief that the disclaimer is true, it would actually be a matter of sin. Emails that do this under the guise of religious beliefs are the worst kind.
 
I have never received a forward/chain letter that had an image of Jesus or our Blessed Mother that contained a “threat” of something bad happening. Usually, they are to say a prayer and as one poster mentioned, you can always edit out the threats. Sometimes, the artwork is something that is too beautiful to not share. 🙂
 
I agree with the other posters: do not forward chain mail for any reason.

I have received messages like that, too. I delete them. Frankly, if they come with images, who knows what type of trojan viruses might be attached. Unscrupulous people will employ many means to encourage people to perpetuate their malware. Guilt and shame is one effective means toward that end.

I also dislike the Facebook memes where you have to change your status or your profile pic or “like” this organization to “prove” that you love Jesus and are not ashamed of Him. Um, no I don’t.

I think it sends a bad message about Christianity in general when we forward this type of stuff around.
 
As my dad once put it, “We believe in God, not bull-”

No, you are not denying God, you are making the cycle of fear on people with weak faith caused by silly chain letters end with you.
 
I would have replied back to everyone on the forward list saying exactly what jacaranda said.

I would break forwarded messages up into several categories: first, cutesy stuff (poems with stock photos). second, recreational stuff (optical illusions, “magic”). third, informational stuff (“beware of such and such” “how to prevent identity theft”)

here are some tips:
  1. take note of who has sent you some sort of cutesy email in the last three months. those are the only people you’re allowed to continue sending those to. just make sure to keep in touch somehow with the other people, so they don’t think you’re dead or something…
  2. do your research on the other two categories, because a whole lot of it is fake. fake recreational stuff is annoying but not inherently harmful (hoax-slayer.com/october-interesting-fact.shtml). fake information could range from annoying (therumpus.net/2009/05/church-sign-war/ - photoshopped) to life threatening (hoax-slayer.com/survive-heart-attack.html - gives unfounded medical advice).
  3. if you can’t follow rule 1 (because you can’t break the habit, or that’s the only way you feel comfortable letting certain people know you’re thinking of them), please take the time to remove the chain blurb at the bottom. while you’re at it, remove all the headers at the top, as well as all the “FWD: fwd: re: fwd: MUST READ!!!” in the subject line. feel free to give it an original subject. I can’t even begin to tell you how instantly less annoying the content is when it’s clear the sender took the time to make it reader-friendly.
anyone remember back in the day when you actually had to mail chain letters!??? :rolleyes:
 
I dont forward any chain letters. I particulary detest the one that says St. Theresa, The Little Flower, will grant you 3 wishes if you forward it on to 10 or more friends. 😛 Like she is some kind of Fairy Godmother! :eek:
 
Chain letters always get deleted by me, but it amazes me who sends them to me. Do they really believe their wish will come true, etc? People who otherwise seem quite intelligent!:confused:
 
wait, the saints aren’t like fairies?? does that mean god isn’t like magic, too?

I know what you mean, christine! I have two family members and one of my best friends who are otherwise very intelligent women… except when it comes to junk emails.

my husband and I recently got the “moneybags” email from one of those family members, saying this july would have 5 fri/sat/sun which only happens every 823 years and is super duper good luck! wow! too bad that not only is that horribly incorrect (every month with 31 days has three days with 5 per month, and the same month happens to repeat a given pattern roughly every 11 years) but the email was from last year. we had a good laugh, then wrote up a response and forwarded it to everyone in the headers who had passed it on. so I guess thanks for leaving the headers on, huh? :rotfl:
 
insideitall said:
anyone remember back in the day when you actually had to mail chain letters!??? :rolleyes:
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😃 I remember when my parents got one in the mail back in the 80’s when I was a kid. I thought it was such a bizarre concept, but I was somewhat fascinated how the same message could be sent to exponentially more and more people over months and years.

Little did I know that such an infrequent experience would become so commonplace! And those chains that took years and years to circulate now go global in less than a day.

I don’t usually get a lot of chains anymore. I got a lot when I was in college and everyone was experiencing email for the first time. But now most of my friends know better. 🙂
 
insideitall said:
wait, the saints aren’t like fairies?? does that mean god isn’t like magic, too?

I know what you mean, christine! I have two family members and one of my best friends who are otherwise very intelligent women… except when it comes to junk emails.

my husband and I recently got the “moneybags” email from one of those family members, saying this july would have 5 fri/sat/sun which only happens every 823 years and is super duper good luck! wow! too bad that not only is that horribly incorrect (every month with 31 days has three days with 5 per month, and the same month happens to repeat a given pattern roughly every 11 years) but the email was from last year. we had a good laugh, then wrote up a response and forwarded it to everyone in the headers who had passed it on. so I guess thanks for leaving the headers on, huh? :rotfl:
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That is at least the fourth iteration of the “823 years” hoax. I got the October 2010 version in e-mail TWICE on my 40th birthday, October 15, 2010. (That October also had 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. Imagine that! :rolleyes: ) Since then I have sworn everlasting enmity against that particular hoax, and within the past month, I’ve successfully alerted 2 blog authors to the falsity of the “July 2012” version. 😃

BTW, there’s another version currently going around claiming that June 2012 has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. Whoever cooked that one up evidently forgot that June only has 30 days, and therefore never has “three fives” of anything. :rolleyes:
 
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