EDIT: I had a pang of conscience and redacted Craig’s last name.

This was originally posted to the Philly Freecycle list:

It has begun…Refuse new coins!

True Americans will refuse these
REFUSE NEW COINS
This simple action will make a strong statement.

Please help do this.. Refuse to accept these when they are handed to you.

I received one from the Post Office as change and I asked for a dollar bill instead.

The lady just smiled and said ‘way to go’ , so she had read this e -mail.

Please help out..our world is in enough trouble without this too!!!!!

U.S.Government to Release New Dollar Coins

You guessed it
‘IN GOD WE TRUST’ IS GONE!!!
If ever there was a reason to boycott something, THIS IS IT!!!!

DO NOT ACCEPT THE NEW DOLLAR COINS AS CHANGE

Together we can force them out of circulation..

Please send to all on your mailing list!!!

I respond with the not very tactful, but to the point:

A) Are you fucking retarded?
B) Why are you posting this to the freecycle list? Seriously?

The OP, the ever charming “Craig,” responded with this wonderful understand of Christ’s teachings:

I see why you have a problem with this message you stupid dumb atheist BITCH! Lick the hairs off of my balls you rotten pussy BITCH!

Beside you dumb shit it didn’t post to freecycle it post to my friends list. How the fuck your ass face got there must have been a bad fucked up trick from your close companion Satan. You KKK ass wife dumb FUCK!

I’m not so sure what a “KKK ass wife dumb fuck” is. Maybe that was a portion of Leviticus that I skimmed.

Since I was concerned that Craig might not understand what his religion is all about, I felt compelled to respond:

Wow, look at the Christian love flowing from you!

If you didn’t send this to the Freecycle list, then why on Earth did the Freecycle mods have to send out an email apologizing for your email and informing us all that you’ve been set to moderated status once again? Furthermore, riddle me this, Batman: how would I have received this email if you didn’t send it to the Freecycle list and if I’m not your friend? Finally, why would your email (the one I replied to) have the phillyfreecycle.com link, as well as the links to reply through Yahoogroups? Why don’t you ponder those questions while praying to rid yourself of such a hateful attitude towards people who are not like you?

Something tells me that Jesus would ignore an email He didn’t agree with, not send a message of vulgar gibberish out to someone who disagreed with Him. From my understanding of the Bible (which is clearly more comprehensive than your own), Jesus wasn’t very hep on such nasty and hateful behavior. If you’d like some advice, I think you should take Jesus’s messages to heart a little bit more before proclaiming to be such a believer in his teachings.

I hope you’ll one day be able to see that Christ’s teaching apply to His entire flock at all times, not just when it’s convenient. Have a wonderful day, Craig, and for your sake, please let go of all this hate in your heart.

-Drunkenatheist

I don’t know if he’ll take me up on my words of advice, but I think Jesus would approve of my response.

EDIT: Nah, dawg, Craig didn’t take me up on my advice, and I was treated to this garbage in my inbox:

Fuck you and Fuck off, I never knew that bullshit freecycle shit was in my address book. Lick my dick.I don”t give a fuck about you or some  bullshit freecycle.

No, I couldn’t resist poking the bear one last time:

Craig,

The easiest way to let it go is to stop responding. You have, however, given me an addendum for my latest blog post. For that, my friend, I thank you!

I see that you have not taken my advice to embrace Christ’s teachings. I guess it’s easier for you to get wound up about urban legends and ridiculous email forwards than it is to actually practice the teachings of your religion.

It’s been fun, but I’ll allow you to save face. Any further insane responses from you will be archived. That means I won’t see them unless I seek them out and you get to feel like you ran the big, bad atheist off the intertubes. The unfortunate thing is that too many hypocrites like yourself exist in the world. I don’t expect you to understand where I’m coming from, but I do expect that if you’re going to email out spam to a mailing list of several thousand members, you’ll at least practice the nonsense you preach.

I’m eagerly anticipating your future emails of strung together four lettered words and vulgar nonsense. Hypocrisy, FTW!

-Drunkenatheist

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