Does God have a PC or a MAC? . . .

Prayer and the Internet. I understand that people preach in all different ways, some by going to church, and some by not going to church. Lately it seems to be popular to receive an email request to continue a prayer chain, instructing you to forward this or that email or you won't pass go and head directly to heaven or some person might not get better from their illness or even worse die. I'm sorry, but I think it cheapens, demeans and provides unnecessary guilt by condemning the receiver to basically "go to hell" for not doing as the message says. Like God is sitting at his PC and looking through your firewall to confirm that you ARE in fact forwarding everyone of those emails and doing so to 10 friends within 5 minutes of receiving it, as they are instructing. You will not want to face him at the Pearly Gates without having forwarded the "prayer message" email. It just seems cheesy to me. I think prayer and spirituality is a personal experience, although many want to stand on the mountains, preach to the choir and shout from the rooftops, fine, it must be good for them, it's just not me. Prayer to me is for everyone and everything, not to be selfishly given or focused to any one person, or any one tragic event, there are too many who need our prayers. So just know when I'm forwarded an email like that, I delete it without guilt, so perhaps I will go to hell, that would really suck. But . . I do enjoy prayer emails like this one! Thanks Doris! I guess we can relate!

• If you ever thought about punching, chocking, poisoning or strangling someone that you work with - You need to pray at work!
• If you ever hear a co-worker call your name and the first thing that crosses your mind is "What the &#!@ does she want now?" and you try to hide beneath your desk. - You need to pray at work!
• When someone comes in and announces, "Office meeting in 5 minutes" and you think "What the &#!@ do they want now?: - You need to pray at work!
• When you take vacation time and you come back to find a mountain of paperwork on your desk because no one would do it and you think "Those sorry @!&# B#!$@!!" - You need to pray at work!
• If you avoid saying hello or how are you to someone because you know it's going to lead to them telling you their whole @&#! life story - You need to pray at work!
• When a co-worker comes in a little too happy singing "Good Morning" to everyone and you think "Somebody needs to slap the !&@# out of her" - You need to pray at work!
• When your computer mysteriously turns off and you want to say "Which one of you sons of @&!@# turned off my computer?" - You need to pray at work!
• And if you know all of the above words that have been bleeped out - YOU definately need to pray at work!
• NOW LETS ALL BOW OUR HEADS.