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I had someone leave a comment on the last post that had nothing whatsoever to do with it. It was a long evangelistic appeal, in essence, that used Pascal\u2019s wager (without giving credit and probably without knowing who Pascal was) and a lot of end-times pseudo-Biblical nonsense. As a rule I do not delete comments unless they are advertising spam, but this one seemed to have the potential to ruin a post where friends and family might leave comments encouraging my son with respect to his violin playing.<\/div>\n

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When you engage in \u201cChristian spamming<\/a>\u201d you are not reclaiming spam<\/a> for Christ. You are turning your Christianity into spam<\/a>. And that, if you ask me, is a terrible thing.<\/div>\n
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