Pleurisy & The Intolerant Troll

One of my posts which gets the most traffic is one I did a couple of years ago about my brush with Pleurisy.  (Read it here.)  Lots of people seem to want to know what it feels like and what to do.  I can tell you now, it feels horrible and phone for an ambulance.

But someone left a comment the other day.  They remarked:

"why did you have to bring religion into it? Keep thy religion to thy self. [insert rude word here]."

Although they inserted their own rude word there.

I keep thinking about this comment.  First of all, I think it's hilarious!  I'm meant to keep my religion to myself but an anonymous commenter is allowed to swear at me!  The intolerance of 'tolerance' is mind-blowing.  Plus the 'thy' stuff - as if that's the 11th Commandment.  Genuinely amused me.

Secondly, it never ceases to amaze me the trolling and nastiness you get on website comments.  That's why I installed the Firefox add-on 'YouTube Comment Snob', which filters out excessive capitalisation, swearing, over-use of exclamation marks, all capital letters, etc.  With a wife who works in customer services, I know the level of horribleness that comes out when you are the tiniest bit anonymous or speaking to an unknown person.  Seriously people, calm down.

Thirdly, how private is private?  I'm meant to keep my religion to myself.  But isn't writing my views on my blog allowed?  I didn't post this person a link to the site.  I didn't pin them down and force them read it.  I just recounted my brief experience with a painful illness from a Christian perspective, put it on the internet and then Google helped Mr Anon to find it.  They chose to read it.

So I'm very sorry that I offended you, whoever you are.  But I hope you are ok and not suffering from pleurisy yourself.  If you are, or at another time of suffering which will inevitably come, I pray that you remember something of what I said, turn to Jesus and have Him take away the fear of death because He's taken away your punishment after death.

I will keep on blogging about God, being very glad to know that all kinds of random people read this.  If you are a random person, you are very welcome here.  Feel free to comment.  Or not.  Just don't feel you need to keep thy religion to thyself.