{"id":508,"date":"2006-05-13T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/05\/more-fun-with-the-mailbag\/"},"modified":"2006-05-13T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T03:46:00","slug":"more-fun-with-the-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/05\/more-fun-with-the-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"More Fun With the Mailbag"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I am working like a crazy person on this script rewrite lately.  If I had the money, I\u2019d pay a psychoanalyst to tell me the longterm psychological harm that might come from spending two weeks lurching between a romantic comedy about Italians in West Virginia and the Catholic Church\u2019s plot to turn a real honest to God goddess into a cup.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody sent me a funny parody of DVC today in which there is a murder in the Louvre, and carved on the wall are the words, \u201cThe Roman Catholic Church is a murderer.\u201d  And then, all these symbologists come in and try to break the code in that message.  LOL!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been getting a ton of emails because of the EWTN show. Most of it has been wonderful and full of supportive sentiments from faith-filled folks everywhere who are at their wits end with this culture.  Thanks to all of you who wrote (and made it to this blog).  <\/p>\n<p>Opening myself to the charge of printing flattery to myself on my own blog \u2013 God knows, somebody has to do it! \u2026..JUST KIDDING! \u2013 I have to reprint the first part of my favorite message so far\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Barbara:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>        After seeing you with Raymond Arroyo discussing Dan Brown, I wanted you to know how much you impressed me with your wit and sharp mind.<\/p>\n<p>        If I were not age 70 and married, I would fly across the country to court you (assuming you\u2019d be still available).  You were marvelous!   <\/p>\n<p>This is so much nicer than most of the messages I received after the Christianity Today piece appeared.  The mail from that was filled with messages like, \u201cDear Ms. Assh*le, you are dumb and don\u2019t care about evangelism (1 Tm 2:4). You make me so mad because you are so dumb. (Rom 12:7) Who do you think you are because you are dumb. 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