Hate Mail: Why Do I Answer It?
Okay, so I put myself out there. I fight for what and whom I believe in. I can deal with hate mail, although it chaps my hide that these people choose to clog my e-mail box instead of posting on the blog, as is proper. Of course, I rarely get a real name. I can at least respect those who don’t heckle-and-hide. The others are cowards.
My problem is, I can’t seem to stop myself from answering them, even though I spend hours, at a detriment to my health. I have tennis elbow (both arms) and I’m not supposed to use the computer. But then, how would I help writers? This time, I’m answering on the blog, as is proper. We’ll call this person “Sonny,” as I don’t have his/her real name. In the future, no matter how it pains me. I’m going to delete any such e-mails. I have to. It’s early, and my arms are so numb I can barely type.
Here we go…
Sonny thinks I’m a “piece of work.” You’re correct. I don’t know many people like me. Thanks for the compliment.
Sonny doesn’t know if I’m a Christian. Well, Sonny, I don’t call myself a Christian. I call myself a Jesus-lovin’ woman.
Sonny has friends, “so-called” Christians, who enjoy drinking, cursing, fornication, adultery, and pornography. They then state the Grace of God covers them. Sonny wonders if that’s the kind of Christian I am. Sonny, I don’t drink, curse, fornicate, commit adultery, like pornography, nor do I smoke or do drugs. I used to drink, curse, fornicate, commit adultery, smoke, and do drugs. Never liked pornography. As to your friends, I don’t see them as what I would call Christians. God tells us He won’t be mocked. If they misrepresent Him, they will have to suffer the consequences. I don’t agree with their philosophy, if you’re presenting them correctly. I can only speak of my salvation.
Sonny wonders if I cringe when a when a person running for a secular job “is for” secular issues. From what I remember from elementary school, I believe those who founded this country did so to flee religious persecution. They wanted the right to worship as they pleased. I think our currency says, “In God We Trust.” No matter. Regardless of the radical Pro-Abortion, Pro-Partial-Birth Abortion, Pro-Infanticide stance of Mr. Obama, his views on secular issues trouble me.
I have business degrees in finance and contract law. I’ve studied Macro and Micro Economics. I’m well-versed in all areas of Politics. And wouldn’t ya know it–I even have a high I.Q.! I’ve listened to hours of Mr. Obama’s interviews and speeches, as well as those of other politicians. I am qualified to make the assessments I’ve made. Mr. Obama’s views are Socialist and Marxist. History has proven this type of regime does not work.
Why do immigrants flock here? Because they say we offer a land of opportunity, where a person can aspire to something, and achieve it. It’s called C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-M. We have (mayhap had) a Capitalist society. People with ideas can pursue them and become successful, tax-paying, economy-helping individuals. Our economy is run-down due to rampant spending by Congress–spending money the country doesn’t have. Raising taxes on anyone during a recession, or when we’re close to one, is foolhardy. One needs to free-up capital to drive the economy. Give people more money to spend so businesses flourish and can expand. Printing more money only causes inflation. I’m not going to continue to educate you, Sonny. No more time.
Sonny doesn’t know about me, but Sonny isn’t voting for a pastor. Well, Sonny, there was no pastor running for either of us to vote for. There was in my primary, but I didn’t vote for him.
Sonny mentioned Mr. Obama has a lot of baggage. I agree. He also lied about it, and when caught, played it down. I don’t know about you, Sonny, but I’m not comfortable having a man who could not qualify to become an FBI Agent, CIA, nor even a lowly staffer for the NSA, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.
Sonny remarks that Christ came to heal the sick [meaning He came to save sinners, as the saved have salvation]. Sonny believes the sick include presidential candidates. I agree. Sonny then lists Mr. McCain’s faults. He is for stem-cell research, he committed adultery 30 years ago, etc. Sonny, he’s also a man who spent more years in prison in a foreign country suffering torture, than Mr. Obama has spent in the Senate. I thought you were concerned with “secular” issues? Stem- cells and adultery do not fit into that category.
Yes, he loves his friend, Joe Lieberman, an Independent who is Pro-Abortion. But Mr. Lieberman is for limited abortion: “When the health of a woman is involved, I think the government has to be respectful. I supported, in fact, a bill in the Senate that would have prohibited late-term abortions, except in cases where the health or life of the mother was involved. I did not support the so-called partial-birth abortion bill because it would have prohibited abortion–that form of abortion at any state of the pregnancy, regardless of the effect on the health and life of the woman, and that’s unacceptable.” Source: Vice-presidential debate Oct 5, 2000 So between an Obama/Biden ticket, or a McCain/Lieberman ticket, there’s still a clear choice on which ticket is more Pro-Life.
Sonny mentions Mrs. Obama has suffered discrimination. I feel sorry for her. I do not think that justifies her statement that because her husband was the Democrat nominee, it was the first time in her adult life she’s been proud of her country.
Sonny says it’s a free county. Yes, and our freedoms are at stake when a president reveres Socialistic and Marxist policies. He wants civilian security forces and czars. He wants to reinstate the “Fairness” Doctrine, which all know is an attempt to squelch freedom of speech. He wants to keep children stuck in inferior public schools, although he won’t have his children attend them. He wants government to control healthcare, which takes away choices, and the government cannot afford. No more time to elaborate, but I could go on indefinitely.
Sonny thinks people should be able to vote for who they want based on the issues that concern them. I agree, and never stated otherwise.
Sonny has a friend who is a “one-issue” candidate, that issue being Pro-Life. Sonny loves and supports his/her friend’s stance. I’m proud of you, Sonny, although your e-mail to me makes the former statement suspect. I’m prouder of your friend. Does he/she need an agent?
Sonny says I should just be a Christian and pray, disciple, and judge the body of Christ. Sorry, Sonny. This Jesus-lovin’ gal will continue to pray, but not only for the body of Christ. As you said, Christ came to heal the sick. I’m praying for Mr. Obama, and that he’ll withstand the trials he’ll face. I’m praying for our country, which is in dire need of an intervention, but not the kind Mr. Obama proposes. I’m going to pray for you as well. As to judging, that’s above my pay-grade. Judge not, lest ye be judged. I’m the least judgmental Jesus-lovin’ woman you’ll find, ’cause I was a sinner-woman, big-time. If there was a sin, I committed it. And now, I let everyone know it. Know who I was, so they can see how Jesus can change a person.
Sonny says Satan is using me to divide the body of Christ. No, Sonny, that would be Mr. Obama. Not all, but some Pro-Life Christians ignored Mr. Obama’s radical Pro-Abortion views because they wanted to see a man who’s half-white become the President of the United States. They’ll have to live with themselves, but they didn’t vote a Pro-Abortion ticket because of anything I wrote.
Sonny has friends, [those “so-called” Christian ones I mentioned above] who never got angry with Sonny when Sonny sinned, but are angry with Sonny for voting for Mr. Obama. What can I say, Sonny? In the future, choose friends who stand for something. Choose friends who have unwavering convictions. Choose friends who practice what they preach. Choose friends who won’t desert you because you think differently on certain issues. Choose friends who believe in a cause, and fight for it, even though they know they’ll receive phantom e-mails from people who criticize them for speaking out. Choose friends who love all people. If you can’t find anyone like that, look no further. I’m right in front of you.
K.
November 14th, 2008 at 22:35
Kelly,
I remember all your posts during the election. I found them challenging and to the point. Some people don’t do well with “to the point” they interpret it as rude or whatnot…I, however, am not one of those people.
It’s interesting how I come upon people who do not follow Jesus and they say the main reason why is because we’re “judgemental.” Unless I read your post wrong, it seems Sonny is telling you to be judgmental?
I have athiest friends, non believers, what have you, but never have any of them felt judged by my being a Jesus follower. Even when I share with them what I believe, which is in direct conflict with what they believe. IT’s called LOVE.
Jesus is about LOVE. Jesus followers are to LOVE EVERYONE. They can disagree with choices of those whom they love, but they continue to love AND pray.
Just a thought…I’m a former counselor….so I am pulling from some of my education when I say this. In my experience, when I was practicing, my clients were MOST ANGRY with me and reactive to things I’ve said that REALLY HIT HOME with them. Something they know is true; however, don’t want to hear it.
Bless you, Kelly….keep up all the hard work. Consider yourself lucky to be “attacked” because you’re doing something right, right???
November 15th, 2008 at 01:40
Kelly,
What a wonderfully written response. There is nothing I can add that would enhance it. I would only say that Sonny, and those who adhere to his philosophy will have to talk God out of enforcing His own Word if they want to live as he described. These verses pretty much detail His thoughts about such philosophies and lifestyles.
Rom. 3:5 But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) 6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? 7 Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?” 8 Why not say—as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved.
The Holy Bible : New International Version. 1996, c1984 (electronic ed.) (Ro 3:5-8). Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
Rom 8:5 Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind of sinful mane is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7 the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.
The Holy Bible : New International Version. 1996, c1984 (electronic ed.) (Ro 8:5-8). Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
God accepts all sinners and cleanses them of their sins through Jesus’ blood, but that does not mean He will allow them to remain in those sins.
Thanks for the great blog.
pga
November 15th, 2008 at 01:57
Thanks, pga.
Your verses are directly on point, as is your observation. Thanks for contributing to the blog!
K.
November 15th, 2008 at 02:51
Kelly,
Don’t know what to tell ya, except maybe this. You may have debated at several levels above the mentality of the author.
That’s where us simple folks come into play. Ya see, sometimes when you deal with simple folks, ya gotta get a little more primitive.
Perhaps he’s a little intimidated about debating his position in public. Perhaps he likes to blow steam at ‘perceived’ defenseless people. Perhaps he’s another ‘preacher’ versus ‘practicer’.
Perhaps he’s sharp enough to understand all the nasty things I just said in the previous paragraph and BRING his debate into the public eye.
Sorry… I don’t mean to inflame anyone. (’cept the one.)
As to your response and the purpose of it… spot on.
Tom
November 22nd, 2008 at 08:45
Howdy, Kelly!
This is my first time on your blog. I love it so far!
And here I thought I was the only one who could see through Obama’s Socialism!
I love your style- looking forward to being back!
November 23rd, 2008 at 05:41
One of the more interesting phenomena of the BHO candidacy is how many professing Christians have overlooked his largely non-Christian behavior.
He was raised an atheist by his mother, only joining a church as a political move, and Jeremiah Wright’s church can hardly be considered Christian since hate and deceit are far from Christian dogma. Indeed, Wright’s church bears a resemblance to that of Jim Jones.
Obama freely bears false witness. He lies continually–not up to the standard of Bill Clinton, perhaps, but easily keeping up with Hillary.
He has honored the father who abandoned him, yes, dedicating his first book, Dreams From My Father, to him. But he allowed his mother to die alone and unattended. Almost the same with the grandmother who raised him, making merely one ostentatious visit to her deathbed, but even yet we have no news of a funeral or memorial service. Perhaps it’s a Hawaiian thing or a Luo custom. Tain’t Christian, though. He is one cold so-and-so, abandoning every friend or relative per his own convenience. I can hardly wait until it’s Michelle’s turn.
He’s kept his hand in with theft, too, for so we may regard the graft he’s collected from Tony Rezko, among others.
And as far as killing–by which the Bible means murder–what else is abortion and infanticide, both of which he has not merely approved but fought for?
It’s all about wishful thinking. Those like the Sonny you address overlook BHO’s manifold faults in the wish to believe that “Change you can believe in” actually means something. And Obama himself is a great wishful thinker, for today he has announced his economic plans–in general terms, as always–and one must be a superlative wisher to believe that the programs he espouses will do more to help than hurt our economy.
By the way, why does your daughter have her money in her bedroom? This is the time to buy stocks, if ever there was one. I suggest American funds–you can open one for as little as $250, I believe, with you acting as guardian under UTMA.
Dai
November 26th, 2008 at 02:41
Hey! I am back after four different computer blow ups! Whew! I thought I would never be on track again.
Your answers are right on Kelly. I wonder sometimes, as I speak with my grandchildren, I don’t think these people are dumb, just uneducated which is exactly what our school system loves, a bunch of people who can’t think for themselves. I try hard to explain to the kids when they are off track. Sometimes I am successful and they say, “Really? I didn’t know that.” Oh I get great joy from that sentence when I have finally gotten through to them.
I can tell that this was a challenge to answer to. Keep it up Kelly, you have my prayers and Jim and I are backing up every word you write. It is most fascinating and actually refreshing to talk to people who think the same way we do on your site.
Blessing to all for a wonderful Thanksgiving for you and your families.
Jim and Paulette Harris