BELLAMYBUDIMAN

Krt AXIS ud kluar. Jgn beli/pake,tw kn tu krt p’dkg gereja setan = “SixA” Ciri: Cver putiH, grs ungu+orange. Postr byk angk60. Sbr k tmN2. 1sms slmtkn 1jwaGBU

Annoying? You bet. But that is an text message Yero forwarded to my cellphone earlier today. I’ve heard about this rumor a few days back and laughed at it, until I received the warning myself. I consider myself as a liberal, yet critical Christian. So my response to this potential chain letter is: BULLSHIT.

During the many years I served as a Christian in church, I’ve heard numerous gossips and rumors about Satanic things that lurked in our everyday life. From the reversed Michael Jackson tapes, Pokemon, Harry Potter, you name it.

I’m not here to argue on whether that AXIS, Michael Jackson, Pokemon, or Harry Potter are satanic or not. They could be, but they can also be not. I have to admit though, that usually, the culprit for such satanic-related chain letters or mails are literal Christians. I call them literal Christians because they often judge and interpret things (Bible, rules, prayers, you name it) exactly like what it is written (You can disagree with me here. Whatever, but I’m not changing my opinion). I’m not going to say which church usually makes biased accusations with no credible base at all (and I can bet, if you are thinking what I’m thinking, I think you know what church I meant), but let me give you an example.

I’ve read several years ago about a certain church-produced paper with Pokemon as its discussion. It’s pretty bold. It stated that Pokemon is satanic. Why? Because Pokemon stands for Pocket Monsters, and monsters are evil, thus satanic. And… (warning, idiotic research lies ahead) Pikachu’s handler is named Ash, which according to them, derived from the word “ass”, which means “butt”, which is not something we could say appropriately. I’m not kidding, I read this with high disbelief, and it makes me sick that a certain church ACTUALLY wrote about something as stupid as this is. And no, “ash” is not a derivative of the word “ass”.

Now, going back to that chain letter Yero forwarded to me, yes, I called it a chain letter, because it looks like one, it has no factual base, I personally think that it is too literally comprehended and the argued reason on why we shouldn’t use it is too vague. In fact, the way I see it, it could be created by four possible kinds of people:

1. Literal Christians who thought that everything that has too many “6″s are satanic. (What if I coincidentally have a landline number of 021-7366666? Would I be satanic as well? In fact I have two 6s on my home phone number, would that make me 33% less satanic? Also, wouldn’t that make every single telephone with keypads 33% more satanic since they have at least one “6″ on the keypad? Give me a break.)
2. Supporters of certain telcos that doesn’t want people to actually switch providers, especially with the running tariff competition as we speak, Rp. 1/sec, Rp. 0.001/sec, Rp. 0.0000000000000000001/sec. Meh.
3. Dumb people.
4. Pranksters.

Again, these companies and people could be or could be not satanic. If they are actually satanic, I think it is up to us as faithful Christians to determine the issue by ourselves, instead of blatantly creating stupid chain letters or emails. This is stupid, and I am ashamed of having you calling yourselves Christians. God did not create us to think as idiots with narrow minds.

Oh, one more thing. When you create things like this as text messages, the LEAST you can do is to write them PROPERLY and not like retards with no thumbs on their hands. WRITE IT WITH NORMAL LANGUAGE!

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