Here’s a new addition to the annals of pointless letters, this one directed to Rev. Billy Graham:
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I want to make myself clear: I have no interest in God or religion, and I don’t care who knows it. As far as I’m concerned, God doesn’t exist, and this life is all there is. Don’t even bother to write me back, because I’m not interested. — G.P.
Graham’s response is what you’d expect — nothing too shocking or insightful. I don’t really care about that.
My question: Why on earth would anyone even bother to write that letter? And sign it with just their initials? And not want a response?
In short, someone wrote to a columnist to say, “I don’t care what you have to say and don’t write back to me.”
It reminds me of a comedian I once heard. He was joking about survey results he had seen on his local TV newscast. I’m paraphrasing, but he said you had to dial a 900 number to cast a vote. It was 99 cents a call. At the end of the newscast, the viewers heard the results. It was 45% one way, 52% the other way, and 3% of the voters were undecided.
That meant, said the comedian, that 3% of the people paid money to call in and say, “I don’t have an opinion on this!”
Or maybe the letter was just made up to make atheists look bad…
(via Possummomma)
[tags]atheist, atheism, Christian[/tags]
