Religious chain emails

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I keep on getting religious chain e-mails from well-meaning friends.

I noticed that some of them say that some luck will come my way if I pass it on to other people. (Does that mean the opposite will happen if I don’t follow?) Some warn me not to break the chain.

I like to read them, but totally ignore the “passing-it-on-to-others part.” Am I doing the right thing?
 
I suppose it’s better than the threatening tone of some chain letters (‘a man in Zap, North Dakota broke the chain and was run over by a Mack truck the next Monday’) but it’s still a chain letter. Thanks for doing your bit to keep the internet trash-free 🙂
 
I have a standard reply in my reply file that I send to such emails, stating that I will not accept or read them, nor will I pass them on, and why: they are superstitious at best, and at worst illegal if they contain implied threats. I send the reply when I know the sender. If I don’t know the sender, I just reort it as spam.
 
You are absolutely doing the right thing.

Spam and chain letters are no way to honor God.
 
I don’t respond to or resend any chain emails, whether religious, irreligious, commercial, or satanic. They are promptly deleted whether they come from friend or foe.

Hey, if they are really serious, let them write a snail mail letter, and send it to 10 people. (Of course, I would just toss those as well.)
 
Any e-mail that: Directs me/Encourages me/Suggests to me, that I should (for whatever reason) “pass on” the mailing …

I immediately trash.

And rightly so.
 
Ma.Eugenia said:
I keep on getting religious chain e-mails from well-meaning friends.

I noticed that some of them say that some luck will come my way if I pass it on to other people. (Does that mean the opposite will happen if I don’t follow?) Some warn me not to break the chain.

I like to read them, but totally ignore the “passing-it-on-to-others part.” Am I doing the right thing?
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Delete them. Your fate won’t be decided by an e-mail like that. (I’d also tell whoever sent it to you to cut it out if they don’t want their e-mail address blocked)
 
They are superstitious. That’s because they make no statistical difference and are objectively a mere superstition.

Of course, the same thing was found when they studied prayer.

So, uh, your call.
 
Ignore them and/or delete them. They are just superstition. If there was anything to the so-called “bad luck” you’re supposed to get by not passing them on, I would probably be dead by now, for failing to forward all 2,341,789 of these e-mails I have received. 😃

To really get something worth forwarding, edit the e-mail to strip out all the superstitious nonsense, the pleas not to break the chain, and the long lists of other peoples’ e-mail addresses – keep just the prayer or picture, and then forward it. 🙂
 
I keep on getting religious chain e-mails from well-meaning friends.
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I noticed that some of them say that some luck will come my way if I pass it on to other people. (Does that mean the opposite will happen if I don’t follow?) Some warn me not to break the chain.
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I like to read them, but totally ignore the “passing-it-on-to-others part.” Am I doing the right thing?
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I think it is a real pain. I just delete it.

Mail which threatens bad things if you do not pass it on, is evil, even if it alleges to be religious. I am convinced it is conceived in the mind of demons.

If in any doubt about a threat, praise God as you delete it praying ‘I put my total trust in my Redeemer God. He loves me and is above all He created. No power can hurt me as I have the protection of Christ over me’ or similar words.

Fear not, you have Christ. Evil is no match for HIm. It is an unfair contest where th loser lost before the race began 👍
 
I always delete these types of emails. If the message/story/prayer is really meaningful, I might pass it on after deleting the demand to pass it on to x number of people.

I detest getting these emails, but haven’t had the guts to tell any of the people that send them to me.
 
Anything that says “pass it on” I dump into the trash pronto, regardness of how meaningful the poem or message or whatever is.
 
I send them directly to the trash bin. The worst part, of course, is the promise of good or threat of evil attached to passing it on or not. Sometimes there’s a flicker of temptation to forward it, just in case, but I dismiss that with a quick prayer of trust in God alone.

The other thing is that most of them are just sappy, sentimental junk. And the one that purports to be St. Theresa, is obviously not in the writing style of any of the saints/blesseds named Therese or Teresa. What a load of ****!

I wish I had the guts to send them back to their originators with a note asking them not to send any more, but I don’t.

Betsy
 
I take the religious chain emails as notes written by human beings and therefore not endowed with any supernatural powers (should they actually come true as a regular occurrence-one should contact the Vatican about a miracle:D ).

The only emails I would forward to large numbers of people are Amber Alerts (for missing children) and virus warnings but only to those not listed in all of the previously sent headings.
 
Actually, any Catholic forwarding such mails because they want to avoid bad luck could be committing a grave sin against the First Commandment.

Superstition

CCC 2111 Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.
 
thistle said:
Actually, any Catholic forwarding such mails because they want to avoid bad luck could be committing a grave sin against the First Commandment.

Superstition

CCC 2111 Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.
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Yeah, that too. For that matter, it leads others to sin by encouraging them to pass it forward. You could say the junkmails were, in reality, anti-religious.
 
If something is truly inspiring or pretty, I will strip off the warning and the “pass it along” parts and will send it to those who I think will appreciate such a thing, but I’m not a spammer.

Most of it goes in the trash bin.

~Liza
 
Hello everyone!

Thanks for your replies.

Thanks for giving me the idea of editing the messages. Some of the religious emails I got really had nice messages (and worth passing on), though I really didn’t like to order others to pass on the messages, so I tend to delete them because of it.

I had been thinking I was being a bit sacrilegeous given that the main messages were religious.

Thanks for telling me the right thing to do with these emails. 🙂
 
Ma.Eugenia said:
Hello everyone!

Thanks for your replies.

Thanks for giving me the idea of editing the messages. Some of the religious emails I got really had nice messages (and worth passing on), though I really didn’t like to order others to pass on the messages, so I tend to delete them because of it.

I had been thinking I was being a bit sacrilegeous given that the main messages were religious.

Thanks for telling me the right thing to do with these emails. 🙂
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This was a very nice and practical thread.🙂 I’ll rate it a 5!👍
 
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