The following is an example of the emails that I get as a result of filling out the survey by the American Family Association. I requested that my email address be removed from their list, but I continue to receive messages from them. I meant to block them, but I forgot. I will now. The survey was for the purposes of obtaining email addresses. I won't make the mistake of filling out a survey at a fundie site again.
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Now available! My new book 'Speechless...Silencing The Christians'
February 16, 2009
Dear June,
You’ve seen the TV show and have perhaps purchased DVDs of Speechless: Silencing the Christians, a documentary series co-produced by the Inspiration Networks and the American Family Association. Now you can get my book which has just been released to you, my friends, and to Christian bookstores and secular markets as well.
My purpose in writing the book is to make people aware that Christians are being silenced all across America: in the political debate, the public square, the schools, the workplace, and even in the sanctuary of their own churches. You’ll find accounts by Christians all over the United States that were never (and probably never will be) covered by main stream media.
I have a two-fold purpose in this message as well. First, I’d like for AFA supporters to be able to receive my book for a donation of $24.95. Secondly, I’d like for you to help AFA get the word out about this book. I am including a printable flyer for you to take, not only to your local Christian book store, but to secular book stores as well and asked them to please stock this book. It is my hope and prayer that the information in my book will inspire more and more people to join the fight to keep Christian voices strong in our darkening culture.
Click here to get the book for a suggested donation of $24.95.
Click here to download and print the flyer to distribute to bookstores.
Sincerely,
Don
Donald E. Wildmon,
Founder and Chairman
American Family Association
No link. I'm not that stupid.
I received that CRAP too, and promptly pressed the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the page.
ReplyDeleteI love the 'donation' thing they use to charge for books or tapes. I'll bet if you don't send the 'suggested donatiion' you get diddly.
ReplyDeleteDavid, clicking the "unsubscribe" button didn't work for me. I blocked them.
ReplyDeleteJim, maybe I should test them out - except that I don't want to have any more to do with them once they stop sending me emails.
I get those damn things too. I just hit the delete button.
ReplyDeleteMe too. I should have known better.
ReplyDeleteMimi, I have a button to the AFA on my blog under KNOW THINE ENEMIES. I hope I wasn't the source of your infection.
ReplyDeleteCrapaud, no. It was the damned survey. We tried to skew their survey. To answer the questions, you had to give an email address.
ReplyDeleteDon't you hate this stuff? I mean, if you're like me you think for a moment, what if it's true? What if somebody is really silencing these people? And you get all warm inside imagining a world without fundamentalist ranting and raving. But then you remember that it's just another lie and that nobody can ever, ever, ever shut these people up. Damn!
ReplyDelete...what if it's true?
ReplyDeleteAnd then you woke up from that wonderful dream. I know what you mean.
One of the things I loved from the OneNewsNow thingy they sent is an editorial(?) of some sort in which the writer said that, given that a poll said Reagan would be a more trustworthy and effective president than Obama, but Obama was elected "Can we trust the American public to vote rationally?"
ReplyDeleteA question I often ask, so I know the intent and the end to the discussion: stop them from being allowed to vote.
The difference between me and them? I'm a decent human being.
Hmmm. Even if Reagan were more trustworthy than Obama, Obama has the advantage of being alive. So it seems like the American people are more rational than the AFA.
ReplyDeleteWhen was the AFA ever rational? They're sly and crafty, all right, and they know how to get what they want.
ReplyDeleteI got one too.
ReplyDelete=> in the bin!
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ReplyDeleteI did the same as David G...finally! They really don't want to lose you!!! I have the same trouble with the Republicans because 40 years ago I was registered as one - I have since changed my affiliation but they keep contacting me...again, and again, and again!!! Still getting those stupid calls and info during the major elections as well!
ReplyDeleteAs a friend of mine said, "They're hard to kill - I mean get rid of!"
"They're hard to kill - I mean get rid of!"
ReplyDeleteLike vampires.
I can't believe I said that. ;o)
That's why I have a different e-mail address for my "spam" mail to go to, and I used that one to fill out the survey so they won't muck up my real inbox.
ReplyDeleteOf course, they apparently don't take into account one's answers in judging who might want to buy their silly book.
Suzer, careful there. You don't really buy the book. You send a "suggested donation", and they give it to you as a gift.
ReplyDelete{Congratulates self on not filling out the 'phobes survey}
ReplyDeleteAt least, I didn't post it on my blog and ask anyone else to fill it out.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Even if Reagan were more trustworthy than Obama, Obama has the advantage of being alive.
ReplyDeleteWell, you know, I thought that, too, but didn't want to say in case I was the crazy one.
Mark, you are the crazy one, but you were right about that. Solidarity! We are all crazy.
ReplyDeleteActually I got two... But the survey was OK with the proper answers. Funny didn't they read them?
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