> Funny how simple it is for people to trash God ... and then wonder why the
> world's going to hell.

Funny how many wars are started fighting over God.


> Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible
> says.

Funny how newspapers quote reliable sources, but the bible doesn't back up a
thing, requiring faith and demonizing those who want justification.


> Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to believe,
> think, say, or do anything the Bible says.

Funny how the Bible believes there's only one way to Heaven, then fills itself
with contradictions on what that way is.


> Funny or is it scary?

Pretty scary.


> Funny how someone can say "I believe in God" but still follow Satan (who, by
> the way, also "believes" in God).

Funny how someone can point at another person, see a difference in that person,
and tell them they're following the devil. Funny how this is exactly what the
Puritans did to the American Indians in Massachusetts, before forming killing
squads to murder thousands of Native Americans from 1680-1730, when they stopped
because they ran out of Indians to kill. Then they started in on their own
'witches' in Salem.)


> Funny how you can send a thousand 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like
> wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think
> twice about sharing.

Funny how among the three taboo subjects, sex, politics, and religion, religion
is the only one where most of my friends respect a persons own opinions and
beliefs, and don't try to push their own on to others.


> Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through cyberspace,
> but the public discussion of  Jesus is suppressed in the school and workplace.

I know several people who have been fired for starting or perpetuating the lewd,
crude, vulgar or obscene in the workplace. I have yet to find one who's been
fired talking about Jesus.

As for cyberspace, people read what they want to, and there's quite a bit of
religion floating around on web sites, mailing lists, newsgroups, and emails
like this one.


> Funny, isn't it?

Funny-haha? No. Funny-ironic? I'm not sure. Maybe in an Alanis Morissette kind
of way way...


> Funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday, but be an invisible
> Christian the rest of the week.

Funny how someone can be so fired up for Wicca, paganism, personal philosophical
beliefs, etc. within their own home, but be an invisible follower of those
beliefs every day, for fear of being oppressed by people who would label those
beliefs as 'following Satan'.


> Are you laughing?

No.


> Funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on
> your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will
> think of you for sending it to them

I wouldn't forward this message in the way you want me to or would expect me to.
I see the knee-jerk passing on of a dogmatic letter like this to be quite
symbolic of the problems with most organized religions: their insistence in
blind faith and devotion. I'd prefer to think for myself, and encourage those I
love to do the same.


> Funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what
> God thinks of me.

Looking at my own beliefs through the Christian lens, I would never worry about
what God thinks of me, as He would be the only one who would see through to my
core, so I wouldn't have to put up pretences or facades to prove what I am.
"Other people" don't have the luxury of omniscience, so I take care that my
outside matches my inside. Is that funny? Is that supposed to be wrong?


> Are you thinking?

Probably too much.


> Will you share this with people you care about?

Yes, in my own way: As a starting point for discussion, not accusation.