Super lowered my comfort levels with checking my email...
Im not on the provider board and I just want to be reassured that, well, Im not the only one, right???

there have been a few threads about it in the past few days.

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Don't worry about it. There's always going to be haters. I just posted the same thread a couple weeks ago on the PO board!

It gets to me. It really hurts my feelings.

I am as open minded as the next guy but a religious fetish IS just a little too much for me..

I know it’s hard not to feel hurt when somebody’s directing that much hatred your way, but keep in mind this guy doesn’t know you. I don’t know what’s in these e-mails, but it sounds like blind rage and madness. You wouldn’t give much place to a madman raving at ghosts on the street, so try to see him the same way.

Now, it’s not my place to say what we all do here is right or wrong — it’s too complicated for a judgment that simple anyway— but I’ll bet one of the main reasons you do this is because you like making people feel good. Well, I’ll take my chances before God with that motivation any day of the week.  

Don’t let him make you feel bad because you like making people feel good

Great commentary!  

Although I have no idea what's included in those emails either I really dislike using some perverted concept of morality to attack others.

Of all the things in life for which we'll be judged this is probably the least problematic.  Think about how this might compare to child abuse, spousal abuse, hell even cruelty to animals, and indifference for the downtrodden is much worse.  

I'm no Biblical scholar and don't quote scripture but the one I remember that makes most sense to me is, "judge not, lest ye be judged".  

I'd rather that someone point their criticism at the hypocrisy and blatant self interest of politicians than at those who bring some pleasure and respite from the challenges we all face in day to day life.

Thanks, tmill9. I did find myself wondering the same thing - whether or not this guy has half as much passion for real problems. Does he feel the same level of outrage for traffickers? Dictators? Billionaires who suppress their employees' wages so they can tack another zero at the end of their own paychecks? People who sold people exploding ARMs to homebuyers that they knew would ultimately leave the buyer bankrupt and homeless?  

But I'm expecting madness to make sense and that's madness itself.

Last soapbox entry, because I doubt anyone’s reading this at this point. My point is I suspect that judgment is all about intentions and the road to hell isn’t paved with good intentions.  

If a scientist rushes out a vaccine because people are dying and that vaccine ends up blinding people, he’s not in danger of hellfire. On the other hand, if a scientist rushes some dangerous drug to market without properly testing it because he can’t wait to make his millions, he might have some explaining to do.

If a rifleman snipes an enemy soldier from 100 yards on a battlefield or a rifleman snipes a civilian from 100 yards on the streets of Sarajevo or a rifleman snipes a civil rights leader from 100 yards on a hotel balcony, they’re all physically the same act. But only two of those snipes are demonstrably evil.

It’s not the “what” but the “why” that condemns. The road to hell is paved with bad intentions. These ladies aren’t here because they’re trying to “rend the moral fabric of society.” They’re here for various reasons. They like sex, they like making people feel good, they don’t mind listening, and on and on. And like other therapists, artisans, or entertainers, they don’t think it’s strange that they should be paid for their work.  

And as far as rending society goes, there are a lot of guys out there with bad options or no options who would say they’re doing them some good. Like the unhappily married man whose only socially acceptable options are to suffer or to get a divorce. (That’s not me, so I’m not rationalizing.)

Passing judgment on a business based on pleasure is above my pay grade and beyond the Angry Prophet’s pay grade. As Courtney Ova said on another board on the same subject, if he’s genuinely trying to persuade somebody, he’s going about it the wrong way. So, his methods might betray his real intentions.

Sermon over. I’m done. Just wanted to get that out into the universe before I popped a vessel. I’m taking my soapbox home