e-mail from my grandma

[JaBlue]

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Dear Jared,
It has taken me time to respond to your caustic response to my e-mail. I love you, and will forgive your arrogance and disrespect. I certainly will not include you in e-mail that I might adress to my list of family and friends. Sorry you were offended. Trust your time at school will be profitable.
With affection, Grandma


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This was in response to a short email I wrote her about some forwarded christian fundamentalist psychobabble. She's very smart, and I realize my wordchoice could have been better in a few areas. Anyway, I'm not sorry for what I wrote because I'm not close to her - don't even consider her real "I'd do anything for her" family - but I wanted to know if she deserves an apology on a person to person basis. I feel like she doesn't, my dad, who's opinion I usually respect, feels like she does, and my friends disagree. Dad disliked my use of "ridiculous" in particular, which I agree is probably not the best, but all I was trying to imply was that if you looked at a small sect of any major religion and try to extrapolate it onto the whole of that religion, you can make it look ridiculous; that the same logic that the pastor used to make islam seem absurd could easily also be applied to christianity. Also I do not consider [censored] to be a curse or inappropriate in the way I used it.

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What's worse: not believing in God and going to hell or believing in Allah,
not killing infidels, and possibly not going to heaven?

Can one not criticize the bible as easily as this minister has criticized
the Q'oran if one chooses to look at strict interpretations of scripture?

Islamic fundamentalism is no less ridiculous than Christian fundamentalism.

Please don't send me these ridiculous e-mails. I believe that God is no
better or different than Allah or any other faith and have no interest in
reading anything written by a member of one faith condemning another. I
would be happy to discuss theology and any ideas about it, but do not want
to read this [censored].

-Jared


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Also this is not intended to spark debate about christianity/islam/religion/whatever... if thats what this devolves into, please let a mod move it to SMP or whatever.

[neuroman]

Pics of your grandmother?

[Dementia]

She's your grandmother, I don't care how close you are, nod your head and smile if you don't agree. She's old and likely won't change her mind, if something makes her happy don't challenge her on it like you're trying to win a debate.

[Jasper109]

Both of my aunts are in their 80's and live in a country that is 95% Roman Catholic.

I love both of them to death, but we never talk about religion or anything even remotely related to religion.

I think you should have just deleted the e-mail and not responded at all. You won't change her mind anyway, so what's the point.

[SackUp]

That was pretty harsh towards your grandma. I don't think I would ever tell my grandma that she was sending me ridiculous stuff or cus for that matter.

You say that you don't mind a debate on religious ideology - why didn't you steer the conversation in that direction instead of a bash session?

Pretty immature way to handle it on your part. You should apologize.

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Pics of your grandmother?

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LOL. Hoping for a gumjob?

[Tony_P]

OP,

wow, you're an [censored]

[livin_a_lie]

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I think you should have just deleted the e-mail and not responded at all.

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Exactly. What were you hoping to accomplish? I mean besides making your poor ol' fragile grandma cry herself to sleep.

[sightless]

Dude, it is your grandma

[BradleyT]

You just e-mailed your way out of her will.