i wasn’t going to post anything about this, but then the guy wrote me back with more “gobbledy-gook”, which was so amusing that i had to post something…
i recently was made aware of rapture ready dot com, which has a "check your spiritual health" section, and in that section, they have a common word that is misspelled: "currupted". i wrote to them and essentially told them that if they’re going to have any hope of convincing me that what they say has even the remotest possibility of being “the truth”, then they’re going to have to learn how to spell.
here’s what i said:
if you’re going to try to convince people that you know the way things are really are, then you are going to have to learn to spell common words first. how are we to expect that you know who God really is if you don’t know how to spell “currupted”?
the guy wrote me back, and said:
And, YOU must learn to edit sufficiently, so that you write your e-mails to correct us in a cogent manner, not with gobbledy-gook in your message, such as you did in the following.
so i wrote back to him and said:
i am not trying to convince anyone of anything… even in this email message.
you, on the other hand, are trying to convince every non-“christian” that you are the one that has all the information, and you don’t spell “currupted” correctly, which makes me think that you’re talking through your hat.
it’s extremely amusing, which, i think, is not the intended purpose of your web site.
i don’t know how much longer this will go on, but i think it’s very funny that apparently he can’t figure out what i am trying to say… of course i didn’t give him the exact URI of the page with “currupted” on it, but you would think that the editor of a web site such as this would know how to use spell check…
Trying to have cogent conversation with a fundamentalist just simple doesn’t work. They’ve close themselves off to even the possibility that other ways exist. What can one do to combat willful ignorance and hatred?
i read a bit from his faq and it was extremely funny.
i generally don’t pay much attention to web sites like this, because it is just a waste of time to actually read most of them, and even more of a waste of time to respond. but when something like this is placed right in front of me in a way that it’s hard to ignore, it’s really amusing to me to ask them about it, and even more amusing when they respond with some sort of holier-than-thou religious horseshit, which i’m fully expecting from this guy in his next response to me… 8)
*laughs*
I too, adore sending emails to places only to point out their spelling mistakes!
I mean, I don’t do that to english places, but only to swedish ones…but it is oh so much fun and yes, people get very offended – specially places which present some sort of “message” like religion, patriotism or any kind of fanatical point (that they are trying to make)
Good for you, that you’re having a bit of fun! 🙂