Keep Your Prayers to Yourself!

Is it too much to ask that people stop using work mail lists to share their idiotic “prayerful” messages? I just received a chain email that starts with “We pray for the innocents of Iraq and Afghanistan” and I feel like I want to vomit. Why can’t people keep their intimate beliefs to themselves? Why this need to make a public spectacle of their fake faith?

I also have to wonder why these religion peddlers always end up being the most inconsiderate people on campus. I wake up to 70+ emails every day (I teach a blended course) and I end up having to sort through all kinds of crap to get to important messages. Even kitty lovers have the brains to realize that photos of their stupid pets should wait while the first month of the academic semester is over. The religious folks, however, are undaunted. No matter how busy you are, they will persecute you with completely irrelevant and obnoxious news of their idiotic prayers.