I was just thinking the other day that it had been a long time since I got any Moron Mail™. I guess I spoke too soon, because today in my inbox was a not terribly polite message from someone who could tell that I wasn’t a Christian (really? how?) but then decided that maybe I was (but I thought they could tell?) and if so, I was to explain a particular passage of the Bible to him for some reason or other. He offered to convert me, and he apparently took exception to the triquetra symbol used as part of the motif of the website.

He awaits my reply. He’s going to be awaiting for a long time.

The thing that annoys me is this whole concept that you can or even should convert random people whose websites you encounter on the net. What’s that all about? The man obviously knows nothing about me except that I use an ancient symbol as a graphical device on a website and that I don’t believe that the King James version of the Bible is the One and True Official Word of God™ and the final word in English translations of the Bible (I’ve got more than a dozen English translations of the Bible, thank you very much).

Based on this, he’s offering to either argue with me about some passage of the Bible which is of no interest to me at all (I don’t argue about the whole triune deity thing because I have found that it’s an utterly fruitless argument that gets absolutely nowhere, and I happen to think it’s a ridiculous piece of dogma, when you get down to it), and if I can’t “provide proof” to him of something or other regarding that passage, he’s happy to convert me to his way of thinking/believing. (I wonder if he’ll also redesign the website to use a motif he prefers?)

I wish I could think of something pithy and amusing to say here, but I’m afraid I can’t. I haven’t been sleeping well and I’m having a very disorganized day so far. About the last thing on my mind is justifying my choice of design motif to some total stranger who wants to challenge me to some sort of prooftext duel or convert me (or maybe condemn me to hell).

I just wonder why people think this sort of random quasi-evangelism is going to do any good whatsoever. All it does is make me do a facepalm.

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