Someone sent me this delicious piece of spam today. Spam, spam, spam, spam, Spam, spam, spam, spam… Shut up, you bloody vikings! To paraphrase Julius in Pulp Fiction, “I’m sorry… did I break your spam chain letter? You were saying something about ‘praying for the troops.’ Oh, you were finished. Well allow me to retort.”
Subject: A prayer request. Short and important
Prayer chain for our Military…please don’t break itPlease send this on after a short prayer.
Prayer for our soldiers…please don’t break it
Prayer “Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. I ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen.”
American Jews, Muslims, Hindi, Sikhs, Buddhists, Scientologists, Baha’i, Atheists, Agnostics, Deists, and Universists — forget it, the troops don’t need your help.
*SIGH* You do realize that I’m an atheist, right? Asking me to pray for our troops’ safety as they protect us (from what?) is as useless as asking me to clap my hands so Tinkerbell will live.
Not that I’m “anti-troop”. I was a troop for six years. And I do not foist my derogatory opinion of George W. Bush or his stupid, useless war upon the troops. I honor them; they volunteer to join the military to protect us from (real) harm. There must be a military, lest other countries’ militias attack and subjugate us.
So, as an atheist, I do hope for the safety of the troops. I just think that instead of praying, a more realistic way to keep them safe is to bring them home, never send them into harm’s way without absolutely valid and unimpeachable reasons, and work like hell to remove the fascist Christian theocrats currently in office.
There is nothing attached……. Just send this to all the people in your address book. Do not let it stop with you, please….
Oh, yes, let’s fill people’s Inboxes with unsolicited e-mail, pictures, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs, spam, spam, and spam. At least this e-mail doesn’t promise to enlarge my penis or grant me millions of dollars from ousted Nigerian royalty (two things I could use, actually).
Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine & others deployed in harm’s way…
Prayer is the very best one.
…well, other than the up-armored Humvees, Kevlar flak jackets, and commitment to veterans care that they really need. Come to think of it, when they’re driving around on bomb-laden roads avoiding snipers in their hillbilly-armored vehicles, prayer is probably the one item they have plenty of.
