I've arrived, I suppose

So, surprisingly, the other day I got a comment on my writing blog [the one that passes for my professional website]. These are rare. My online presence is basically ignored by billions of people, so I was stunned to see someone had posted - and of course, it was not a comment on my work or a query about a long-awaited sequel, but the ubiquitous nutjob waxing rhapsodic about erotic romance equating to sin. 

I was, needless to say, delighted. 

In all the years I was an active purveyor of smut - no one cared enough to call me out on it. Now that I've decided to tone down my work and stick to stories that focus more on story and less on sex, NOW someone with a god complex decides to lecture me. 

It's ironic in the extreme. 

The sad/funny part is, this peddler of fire and brimstone started out with questioning whether I was worried about not getting into heaven because of my writing choices. [Oh, hun - I'm Gnostic. We don't worry about getting into heaven. We already have permanent residences there.] I might have been offended except said whackjob proceeded to ramble aimlessly about nonsense for several paragraphs and signed off as Fr. Sarducci from SNL [Saturday Night Live] - a show I have never watched or cared to. So, was this person just trying [and failing] to be funny? Or did this numbskull think that a tongue-in-cheek approach was somehow a better way to reach a wayward sinner who might sit up and take note of her transgressions from the promised path if the 'troof' was presented in a semi-comical way? 

I can't really tell. 

I deleted the comment unpublished, of course. Rule number one is Don't Feed the Trolls. But I did save the message in my e-mail under fan mail - because hey, maybe this dimwit doesn't like my writing, but at least he/she/it cares enough to presume to want to save my soul. 

It might have been fun to take the twit to task and explain however tediously that someone else's spiritual experience has no meaning for me. Only my own spiritual experiences shape my thoughts and beliefs. So someone who fancies themselves a soldier of god is not only a moron in my eyes but also utterly ineffectual, as I'm well aware my path to heaven is MY PATH and I'm being led through my own relationship with the creator. No one else is qualified to be my conduit to 'life everlasting' as I already have that. No one else is qualified to teach me what I can only learn for myself. So, though I've decided not to communicate with this ditz any further, I do want it out there that this rather pathetically executed attempt at leading a straying sheep back to the fold was a complete waste of time. 

I appreciate the entertainment value, though, and of course the opportunity to turn someone else's foolishness into a blog post. Thanks for all the fish!