I got a nice little card!


Aww, pretty.

I wonder what it says inside?

Dear Professor Myers:
I am grateful to have the desire and opportunity to pray for you.
My prayer is that Almighty God will bring you to a knowledge of the Truth so that you can respond to the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Sincerely, …

Your prayers have been answered, and I respond!

Jesus is long dead, and all that’s left is a death cult that probably would have horrified him while he was alive.

Keep praying your little heart out,

Sincerely, PZ Myers.

Comments

  1. birgerjohansson says

    Those are not sunflowers.
    They are Triffids!
    Plant-based intelligence is coming to reclaim the world from Animalia..

  2. outis says

    Well at least it was polite.
    Nice card, written in cursive, pretty illustration, no insults or rants.
    Compared to what you get normally I’d give this four stars (I also admit I have a soft spot for that kind of homey landscape).

  3. Tethys says

    The illustration is pleasant enough, and as Outis said, the rounded cursive handwriting is tidy and tells you the writer is likely an older lady.

    It isn’t the praying that is problematic so much as they sent you a card to passive aggressively inform you that they are praying you come to Jesus. It’s clear that they are so very grateful to proselytize.

  4. Akira MacKenzie says

    “ Jesus is long dead, and all that’s left is a death cult that probably would have horrified him while he was alive.”

    Would he? All we know about Jesus (assuming he existed at all) and his teachings comes from the writings of members of his cult. Of course they’re going paint him as a meek and mild, benevolent peacemaker with divine powers. However, what we’ve seen with other such “holy” personages of more recent times, the historical Jesus was probably closer to the likes of Marshal Applewhite, L. Ron Hubbard, or Charlie Manson: Either a grifter capitalizing on the religious fervor of Roman-occupied Judea, or a frothing-at-the-mouth fanatic with a head full of narcissistic delusion.

    That’s right C.S., he was a “liar” or a “lunatic” (perhaps a bit of both). He was never “lord.”

  5. Knabb says

    One of the other concrete pieces of information we have is that he was a member of an ethnic minority in an occupied province that put up a lot of resistance to imperial occupation, everything written relatively early suggested that the guy also really hated Rome even relative to that baseline. This does not bode well for any claims of approval by most parts of the modern church, being either directly tied to Rome or wrapped up in other imperial projects.

  6. says

    It’s superstitious xtian terrorism even when wrapped in pretty fluff.
    Just Like putting cyanide inside candy and offering it to you with a smile.

    I’ve experienced this type of polite poison from xtian terrorists too many times over the decades. I’m disgusted and angry.

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