Seemingly, I have had more problems dealing with outright spam, or the attempts to attach it here, tha I figure I ever should. I made the point at one point that this is my soapbox. This is where I speak from, and if you happen to think I'm right or wrong, please feel free to comment. If you wanna hang your ad here, this is not the place, and I will handle it in what I consider to be the appropriate fashion. I have also had to deal with some amount of "pseudo-Godliness," on the part of some people who would profess their religion via email, as opposed to actually going to church, getting confirmed (if you're Catholic,) or actually having a real, functional, regular relationship with God. This just bugs the living sh*t out of me. One of the things I have learned lately is that part of having a relationship with God is having the whole church, social experience. Having people who will pray for you, if necessary. That kind of thing. Not chain emails, designed to guilt you into having a better opinion of yourself. That's NOT what it's all about. If you happened to get one of these from me, I apologize, mostly it was done in the effort to just shut one particular person up, and scream my point about what's real and hypocritical when it comes to knowing God. And, to make my point, yeah, I DO feel I know God, I know my Bible, I know my favorite scripture passages. Anyone who REALLY knows me, (or has even been reading here,) knows exactly what my favorite passage of scipture is; it's the one that got me through all of the darkest days I have ever known, even if I sometimes can't remember the exact words, I know the hope that it gives me. And Ron Rolheiser, http://www.ronrolheiser.com/books/, confirmed when he came to our church recently that this particular passage was, in his words, "the distillation of hope; this is hope in a nutshell." And if ya DON'T know the passage, well, lemme spell it out for you; http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+9%3A11&version=KJV. I'm not about to go pushing my beliefs on people who really do believe something else, and if you feel as though I did, once again, I apologize. I'm not faddy about my beliefs, these are the ones in my heart, and they're there for a reason. They've proven themselves, time and time again. Big picture, if you REALLY love Jesus, knock off the hokey emails, (which are frequently infused with a large modicum of uncalled for nationalism, which I REALLY hate,) and get your a*s into church, if you haven't recently. You wanna know and love God? Do it the right way.