So what?

That's right, blame it all on the bunnies in the Prayer Fulfilment Centre. God, with his million manna a year salary, unlimited expense account and generous stock options on Heaven plc will never be responsible for anything. Standard business practice.

Congrats on the cherry! I read this poem earlier today and didn't have time to comment ... but I am now and just to say I thought it great.

Tina x

haha! Great humour. I really enjoyed your poem and will pass it on to my "evangelical" friends....

Nice poem. Well done

Hello Dorrie62, Yutka, Tina and FTSE. Thank you very much for your comments.

I don't know how I would have reacted to such a comment on my work, especially by someone who had never commented on my work before, had they said the same things No1 has said to Artisus. I find it odd to assume copying or stealing of an anecdote email, and then putting a fellow writer into this or that category - it is assumption, and a negative comment, as is to then state 'I would have preferred this worked into more of a poetic format'

I have seen this poem on other sites more than a year ago, and have just found the email Artisus sent me when she translated it, the first draft, email dated 30/07/07. I thought to add my thoughts here.
littleditty

No1: petakses baroufa, oyte kan kotsana. Find a Greek to tell you what it means.

I have not been able to track the source of the offending email. It was one of those that had been around the world and back and forwarded hundreds of times - and the trail is now stone cold.

I truly regret making such a rash allegation against artisus, a writer whose integrity I have no reason to doubt. My remarks were made in the heat of the moment and in ignorance of the full facts. But this is no defence.

Accordingly, I offer a full and sincere apology for my words and the unworthy thoughts behind them.

There is no anecdote email telling the same story based on the idea of

So What?

circulating prior to the date I wrote it and published it first in Greek then in English. There may be other anecdote emails based on St Peter, God, Angels, Frank Sinatra and Donald Duck circulating since the first days of the World Wide Web and whose source you can track even after the Second Coming.

I appreciate your offer, which would have been almost acceptable, without the unnecessary introduction of your belated apology that deserves only one answer:

Forget it.

* original comment from November 2008 withdrawn *

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I've only just found it and I love it!

I think God leaves it up to the individual to make their own choice and it's no good complaining you backed the wrong horse once the race is over.