Hate Mail

Michael Miller, Page 17

[Editor's note: it's now apparently time for him to waltz away without admitting even the smallest defeat, answering any of the multiple challenges I made, or acknowledging the fact that I had easily responded to his challenges. He claims it's for health reasons. If it were anyone else, I would believe him, but I must say that with his personal history of deceit, I have my doubts. Anyway, you might as well read this (hopefully) final message]

July 20, 2001:

Just thought you would like to know that your email entertainment (me), will probably bother you no more. I just had a simple routine echocardiogram done at Temple University Children's Hospital yesterday and learned some unsettling news. I part of a first generation bulk survivors of ToF/PA and what they are learning is scary. They believed (using elderly patients as a model) that problems with the pulmonary valve were not big of a problem. The right ventricle will enlarge a bit and cause some arrythymia. Well in children and young adults however it is a big problme. In the 1990's as these kids reached their early 20's and 30's they began to drop over dead. The ventricle would cause tachycardia and that would kill them. A normal right ventricle is about 1cm in diameter, in 1993 mine was about 3 cm. Yesterday it was measured at about 5 cm. They will do a stress test Aug 1 to see if my heart muscle is too damaged and not bounce back if they put in a new conduit and valve. If it is too damaged they all we can do is start a count down till it fails and or supply me with a transplant. I am not having a good week. I have to replace my car's engine and my 2 year old cat may have a bad back problem and now this.

That's most unfortunate. We may disagree but I do not wish premature death upon you.

I won't have time to keep up with you now. I still believe that you are quit biased and very uninformed about a lot of what you are claiming about. But then aren't we all?

Some of us more than others.

Some say no one has all the answers but then believing you know someone who does just helps you get through the day, in ways you can't imagine.

Pleasant fairy tales can be very comforting, I agree.

I work for a software company and we think some the Credit Bureau reps we deal with are believers. There was a message on my voice mail today from one of those reps. He called the day I was at Temple asking about me. He had left a company and started thinking about me and my wife. He got a strong thought about me and had a strong picture of me and my wife and could not get rid of it. He called asking how I was doing and if everything is alright. That may not seem important or significant to you but I see simple things like that happen all the time and always at just the right time.

Let me see now ... I'm an atheist so you automatically assume that I don't give a shit when someone has health problems? Nice attitude ... and you wonder why I think you're a bigot.

Believe what you will. Christians are not the ignorant, bigoted, racist, morons you seem to make them out to be.

Many of them aren't, but you are.

I know you mention some who are not I believe you called them moderates.

Precisely. They don't mindlessly obey the Bible, because they believe that God is better than that.

I would question some of their convitions but I would never condem them. Only God can do that.

You would question their failure to be ignorant bigots like you, and then pat yourself on the back because you don't condemn them for this failure? This doesn't mean much, particularly when you obviously expect God to do that for you.

I don't even condem you.

No, you just accuse me of having no feelings, which isn't surprising since Christian fundamentalists routinely say so many hurtful things about atheists that they must think that atheists have no feelings, or they might feel guilty about it.

You have chosen your path. You just better hope you have not chosen unwisely and you seem confident that you have. We will see.

You seem to be alluding to this afterlife judgement that you're waiting for, but we don't have to wait that long. The measure of a man is how he conducts himself in this world, not how he expects to be treated in the next.

If there is an afterlife (although I stress that there's no logical reason to believe in one), it would be quite a cruel and unjust one indeed if one is to be judged and punished based on allegiance rather than behaviour.

In conclusion, I take no pleasure in hearing of your worsening health problems. However, they don't give you an excuse to be a bigot.

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