There’s an email been circulating the internet for a few years now. Â According to snopes.com it’s true. Â The story is true, not the actual content!
The story goes something like this: Â Girl’s dog dies, girl distressed, writes a letter to god, god responds with letter.
On the surface, it all looks very nice and quaint.  The girl wrote a heartfelt letter to god, put it in an envelope and mailed it to god in heaven.  Someone, probably at the post office, opened the letter and then wrote a response, pretending to be god.  That person sent the letter back to the girl, along with a book to I assume help her with her grieving.
Have a read of the full letter here, then come back, I’ll wait.
Here’s the problem with this sort of mindless shit. Â First off, anything that lives will die. Â Get use to it. Â Death is often traumatic and leaves us in a long period of grieving. Â You have an obligation to your children to help them face death.
The mother has not helped her daughter understand the true nature of the world. Â The daughter thinks that dead dogs have spirits and bound around heaven with god.
The real problem however is that the little girl wrote a letter to god, and god responded. Â Well, not god, some poor misguided fool responded.
What that person has now done is given the expectation that god answers your prayers.  The next time somebody close to her dies, lets say her mother, what will the response be from god?  She’ll write a letter, post it and wait to hear back from him.  There will be no response.  There will be the initial excitement and expectation that will lead to disappointment, resentment and then self loathing as she tries to understand why god no longer loves her.
So, when you get this stupid email, don’t feel compelled to send it on, hit reply all to the email and send a link to this page.
Hang your head in shame, you should not be perpetuating this kind of dangerous crap.
Llama, as ever you are the llama of wisdom. Some people like to play god and pretend they are doing it in a good cause. A postal worker fucking with a little girl’s emotions – methinks that deep down, this was all about the postal worker wanting to feel good about the postal worker – not about wanting the little girl to feel better.
Religion is always about people wanting to feel better or superior. Imagine how superior the postal worker felt by “making a little girl feel better” – by completely bullshitting the little girl and warping her future expectations, the postal worker raises his/her own feelings of self-esteem at the expense of the little girl’s future disappointments. Fuckwit.