Posted on 11/13/2001 5:02:16 AM PST by Brookhaven
A story similar (or identical; it's very close) to this one was in the Onion several months ago. One of my wife's relatives sent her an e-mail with the article enclosed. They took it seriously! I, of course, take most anything retrieved from the internet with a grain of salt. Especially when I see the url in the body of the e-mail text - theonion.com.
I don't know how many people were actually taken by this; wifey wrote back to her friend to tell her that this was satire, and not to be taken seriously.
But that is indeed the beauty of the internet. It seems to have it's own "checks & balances." There are as many if not more sane people using it as insane. I can't count the number of emails I have had to reply to with the urbanlegends site affixed to let people know that what they are sending to their friends is in reality a hoax or blatantly untrue. However, I believe most are like you that they take most of what they read with a grain of salt until they find some verification.
But it feels good to get a tweak in now and then doesn't it?
Just check post #2. Sometimes I think these people are going out of their way to make Christians look like gullible but dangerous idiots.
Sometimes, these people seem driven to meet their worst critic's expectations.
"Harry is an absolute godsend to our cause," said High Priest Egan of the First Church Of Satan in Salem, MA.
LOL.
I was waiting for hours in a hospital waiting room while my husband was undergoing gall bladder surgery, killing time by reading the magazines. In one of them , in the letters to the editor section, I found a letter from a woman in Alpharetta, GA. She was complaining about the article the magazine had published on Harry Potter, and mentioned how disgusted she was that the magazine had never done a followup to that article , using the information she'd sent them. She mentioned an article she'd mailed to them in which JK Rowling admitted to being a Satanist and that her books were meant to lure children into satanism and witchcraft.
The article she sent them was the Onion parody! The editors of the magazine told her that the site she got the article from was a satire site. They were polite though, and told her not to feel bad as the Onion's parodies are so well done.
That was good for a laugh that morning, especially under the circumstances. I am not sure what magazine it was, but I think it was some women's magazine, like RedBook, Good Housekeeping,FC, or LHJ. Not a magazine like Glamour or Vogue.
It's my new favorite line: Whaaaat?
= )
In cooking, a pinch of salt compliments the taste of onions. I guess the same principle applies here as well.
That has apparently already happened in the past few months. I have heard reports, but cannot vouch for their authenticity. IMHO, it makes the joke that much funnier.
Obviously no one wants to hear they are at the mercy of God. God's way is the only way to develop true emancipation and independence. Sad this little girl is getting so confused about the issues. God is not about power, He is about emancipation from power! Magic and satanism are anything but emancipation from power. These are the paths to slavery ultimately.
Seriously, if you ask them certain question to see whether they would be enclined to enslave themselves to certain powers (like violence, drugs, the nany state or what not), you would readily see it. However most children are communist in nature, depending heavily on authority or their parents' welfare, unable to cope independently. That is the reason why the Khmer Rouge and the Palestinian intifada of youth is so effective at murdering.
HAIRY PLOTTERS: Pagan Satanist Target Kids With Occult-toons
Very Funny!
Seems these religious fanatic adults have a tough time telling fact and fiction apart.
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