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The Religious Hate Dave

Dave Simmer at Blogography seems like a nice enough guy. He writes about pop culture. He draws cute cartoons. And he makes up stories using Legos. Who would guess that he would be on the Most Hated List by religious people all across the country?

Remember that internet phenomenon during the summer about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which poked fun at “intelligent design?” Dave created his own little humorous drawing using a cartoon image of himself (along with a monkey friend) as a stand-in for the BIG GUY himself. Six months later, he still gets hate mail about this:

They started out preaching fire and brimstone, then settled into a series of scripture quotes, then said they love me, then say they will pray for me, then threatened me with eternal damnation in hell if I don’t stop mocking The Almighty. This was not the first time, but I never get tired of hearing it.

You’d think that the fact I’m rendered as a cartoon and have a screaming monkey with me would be a big clue that I’m not actually serious about being God, but apparently there is room for confusion here.

Dave seems to have a knack for insulting people of religion in new and strange ways. To stop internet crooks from stealing his bandwidth, he enabled hotlink protection. If someone tried to hotlink a photo, they would end up getting a cartoon of a guy’s ass with a lipstick “kiss” on it. He thought it was pretty cute and tasteful. That is, until he got an angry email from someone stealing one of Dave’s photos for a Christian fellowship forum.

After the emailer threatened to sue, Dave responded:

“Let me get this straight. You steal an image from me without asking permission, fail to give me credit for said image, and then threaten to sue me because you’re not a very clever thief? Just exactly how big of a dumbass are you?”

Dave, I can’t wait to see the next blog you start — you know, the one you’ll be writing from Hell!

This entry was posted by Courtney Gidts on Friday, December 16th, 2005 at 7:40 am and is filed under Underrated. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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