I wasn’t going to write this post. To do so, I felt, might contradict my efforts to remain staunchly apolitical. It is, after all, quite a feat to remain unafflicted by the pandemic of election-mania that has our country sweating and moaning and gnashing its teeth. But I simply must get this off my chest.

But I’m not going to get into the reasons why I’m probably not going to vote. Instead, I’d like to take a minute to vent about how annoying it is to receive incendiary political propaganda in my email in-box from people with whom I (naively, perhaps) entrusted my email address.

Most of the people sending the offensive emails are from my church. The main reason this is annoying is because these well-meaning individuals take it for granted that because I’m a Christian, I’m naturally a Republican. Every time I get one of these emails, I want to bash my forehead into the computer keyboard until I lose consciousness. These emails generally describe Barak Obama as the anti-christ, and claim that under his leadership we’ll all have to become Muslim and/or gay, and regularly participate in ritual child sacrifice. Then they like to follow it up with a set of prophecies about how John McCain will give everyone a foot massage and a unicorn pony, and free trips to the moon. All of it makes me want to barf in my lap. (more…)