Ineptitude?

Why is it that the majority of people trying to convey a message close to their heart don't have the decency to first run it through a grammar check before plastering it all over the web and through email? And why is it that the messages that get forwarded are the worst ones? Here's an example from a recent email received comparing the lives of President Ford, James Brown, and Saddam Hussein:

"There is only one choice and Gerald Ford's life exemplifies the nobility of choosing to walk in harmony with The Creator through the acceptance of Jesus Christ as his Redeemer.

James Brown choose to walk in the flesh. His life's work glorified the flesh and his death magnified the flesh.

Sadam Hussein choose evil. He was a narcissistic megalomaniac. His life glorified evil and his death was gruesome."

Well, where to start? I think I'll start with the fact that the use of "choosing" in the first example obviously prompted the the incorrect use of "choose" in the next two. Next, I will not be one to disagree that James Brown lived a life of the flesh, but one must also take account of the fact that his break into music came with a gospel group, and gospel music in general being one of the cornerstones of his sound. I think the author is still just mad he played a pastor in The Blues Brothers, and probably hasn't ever shaken their groove thang.

The most glaring thing - to me at least - is that this person is writing about recent events, and CANNOT SPELL SADDAM CORRECTLY. Saddam Hussein has been a household name for the last five years, and well known since the 1980's. If you're going to be brazen enough to spout out your religious beliefs to the general public, please at least be able to correctly identify a name used almost daily in the news, even after his death.

In addition, while their reasoning for Saddam being evil walks the path of his deeds against others, the tone of the the entire email - as I'm sure many can pick up from the short excerpt above - is that people who don't follow the teachings of the Bible are not good people. I respect their right to hold this belief, but I don't feel that it will help our culture further itself toward acceptance of all those that reside within our borders.

Those that wave the flag that America was founded on Christian morals and beliefs must be forgetting the part of the tale where the settlers drove the Native Americans out of their land and further west, eventually designating certain areas where they can live and open casinos. So really America was founded on disrupting an established culture and implementing their own. Sounds like current events to me.