HateMail: You Are Not Allowed To Thank Me For Hating You Michael!

Mandeville, LA – In the last month I have surrendered the will of responding to hatemail in-kind and instead try to respond as meekly and thankfully as I can. For as St Augustine tells us…

“But what is, from a harsh word? The devil has entrapped many by a harsh word: for instance, those who profess Christianity among Pagans suffer insult from the heathen: they blush when they hear reproach, and shrinking out of their path in consequence, fall into the hunter’s snares. And yet what will a harsh word do to you? Nothing. Can the snares with which the enemy entraps you by means of reproaches, do nothing to you? Nets are usually spread for birds at the end of a hedge, and stones are thrown into the hedge: those stones will not harm the birds. When did any one ever hit a bird by throwing a stone into a hedge? But the bird, frightened at the harmless noise, falls into the nets; and thus men who fear the vain reproaches of their calumniators, and who blush at unprovoked insults, fall into the snares of the hunters, and are taken captive by the devil…”

Alas, this is to no avail because my correspondents operate from their own assumption that my responses are written in arrogant, dismissive jest, never considering for  a moment that I meant every word, humbly, as written. Take this note from today’s hate-mail bag with my responses. The chronology is newest to oldest, top to bottom.

On Jan 9, 2015, at 10:09 AM, The KingDude <kingdude@mikechurch.com> wrote:

Dear Larry,
WHY do you question the validity of my very genuine response? I meant every word of it as humbly as it was written.

I won’t be reading anything else from you, so a response is not needed.

Pax Domini tecum,

Mike Church

On Jan 9, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Larry C  wrote:

Mike, Can you not receive the least reproof? To suggest that I want to denigrate your character is a smoke screen. Humble yourself, you don’t need me or any man to defame you. There exists in every man blind spots. I hope, in fact I will pray, that today you see the true salvation that ONLY comes to the humble.

“Reprove a wise man and he will love you”

May the true and pure grace of God encourage you today.
Larry

On Jan 9, 2015, at 5:56 AM, The KingDude <kingdude@mikechurch.com> wrote:

Dear Brother Larry,
Yes, I am a miserable sinner and have a soul full of pride, tis why I pray and beg Our Lord for the Grace to overcome it, every hour, everyday, without fail. Seriously. Please publish your note where it has maximum potential to be read so I may suffer the calumny I deserve and thank you for coming to my aid.

Pax Domini tecum

On Jan 9, 2015, at 6:47 AM, Larry C  wrote:

Mike, your mouth exposes your arrogance. The F35 has been in use in Yuma AZ for over a year. It flys over my head every weekday.

While I thoroughly enjoy your knowledge on the many subjects, you have let pride, which, while I am at it, “goes before destruction”, not “before the fall”, pride rules you in many ways.

I hope you don’t go nuk-u-lar over this email.

Larry