In which Tom Cruise's Christian Counterpart Spams My Blog

WHY WHY WHY do religious people think that a cry for help is necessarily a cry for their particular brand of god? Why do they think religion is a substitute for appropriate brain chemistry? I recently got the following response to my "stream of consciousness" (aka I'm still going crazy) post.

There is a way to be free of all this and truly love yourself and others the way you would like to. This road to freedom I am talking about is not the easier road, but it is the only road that will free you from all this. If you are interested - email me jackass4god@charter.net*

Cryptic, no? Knowing Internet spam as I do, I googled the e-mail address. And where do you think I found it? On a Web Site whose tagline states that no truth matters but God's. Whose god, I wonder. Well, I hate to tell you, Jackass, but I've Been There. I've Tried the Religion Thing. And you know what? I was not any happier and I was CERTAINLY not any more sane.

Jackass's Web Site states that he grew up in a "dysfunctional non-christian home" and had to learn about his Delusion of Choice the hard way. Jackass, I grew up in a dysfunctional christian home and learned plenty about Delusion. I'd even venture a guess that your delusion is a good part of my current lack of santiy.

At any rate, the last thing I need is you trying to take advantage of my less-than-sane mental state to SNEAKILY try to get in my head through the back door and spout your nonsense.** Nevermind that it's incredibly presumptuous to assume that I don't ALREADY subscribe to your Delusion of Choice based on one desperate post (or that I haven't Been There and Done That). I know plenty of people who are happily Delusioned and still quite crazy, thankyouverymuch. Nevermind that I don't need to learn how to "love myself" or "free myself" so much as I need better coping skills and quite possibly psychotropic medication to stabilize the chemicals in my brain. I can tell you Delusion does nothing to alter my brain chemistry. Nothing good anyway.

SO all you other prosyletizers out there, take note! I'll even jump up on the couch and be real excited about telling you this. I'M NOT INTERESTED.  My brand of crazy will not be solved by you or Tom Cruise. The End. 
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* e-mail address has been changed to protect you from subjection to The Crazy.

** I know some people (likely even some of my readers) are religious in one form or another. My take is actually, "whatever works for you" as long as you can respect me enough to trust that I know what works for me. Or at least what DOESN'T work for me.