Note: I’ve tried to write this post numerous times, but it always comes out with a vibe other than what I intend. I want to state that I am not anti-Christian (nobody who knows me would think that, of course, but people who don’t know me might conclude that for various erroneous reasons). I’m not even anti-religion. What I am is anti-moron, and this is a post about morons who happen to identify themselves as “Christian”. I put that in quotes because I very much doubt that Christ would approve of people claiming to represent Him sending verbally abusive emails to random strangers on the internet.

All right, then.

It is well known that I have a thing for unicorns. I’ve had a fairly popular unicorn site for years and years now, and I still maintain it and occasionally update it when some unicorn tidbit presents itself for inclusion.

One of the things I’ve pursued is an answer for how/why unicorns ended up in the Bible. Okay, not every version of the Bible, but certainly the venerable Authorised Edition, a.k.a. the King James. Being interested in textual criticism and also in unicorns, it was a natural question for me to explore.

So I, being who I am, I made a web page, which has evolved continually for many years, on the topic of unicorns in the Bible. Seems harmless enough, right? And it is. It’s just an offbeat hobby type interest about which I made a web page.

For many years, I had the page on a Christian-interest website (which I no longer maintain, but the domain is still functioning and will be indefinitely; I’m rather attached to the domain name). I used to get a LOT of “you’re going to hell” mail because of that unicorn page. I know, right? Unicorns? What kind of hateful person would condemn to eternal torture someone they’ve never met because of a web page about unicorns?! Nonetheless, that page was hugely controversial for reasons which utterly confound me, other than to note that, unfortunately, some people are morons, and some morons call themselves Christians and think they have the right to decide who is or isn’t going to hell based on the content of a random web page, because the web page contains information which is contrary and therefore threatening to the moron’s rigid, ignorant, and constrictive worldview.

Now the interesting bit, or at least the bit that I find interesting. Some time ago, I moved the oh-so-controversial unicorns page from the previous Christian-interest site to my unicorns site, which is “secular” (although, frankly, I find that making divisions between that which is “spiritual” and that which is not to be ludicrously simple-minded and extremely limiting, not only of myself, but also of God). And since doing that, I have gotten exactly ZERO “you’re going to hell” emails.

Yes, despite the fact that the page has the same content (somewhat updated, as I’ve learned new stuff about textual criticism and so on), and is still making scandalous claims as to the King James translation of the Hebrew word re’em as “unicorn” being an error, I have gotten absolutely no more “you’re going to hell because of a web page” emails.

I find this really strange, and very, very telling about the kind of people who used to regularly send me those kind of emails (i.e., morons). I wonder why they think that since the site in which the page now resides is “secular” or “personal”, it’s no longer their business to tell me I’m going to hell? Don’t they care that I’m going to hell (according to them) when the page is in my personal domain? I don’t rate hell-sending now, or something? Why, because they can’t clearly tell if I’m a “professing” Christian and if I’m not they figure I’m hellbound, anyway, or what? I can’t figure it out. But then, I’m not a moron…

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