#175. GodisGoodandBeautiful777@yahoo.com
Apr 24th by Jon
It’s great to me how willing people are to admit that we Christians do some silly things. For instance, I’ve received lots of emails from people saying I should do a post about “holy sounding” email addresses. And when I look at the name of the person that suggested it, it’s usually from someone named “JesusLovesandSavestheWorldBecauseHeisLove.”
And like most of the things on this site, I don’t have a problem with holy sounding email addresses. If you send out 100 emails a day to friends and you want to use that address as a way to remind them of your faith, go for it. I do think there are a few things you should consider however:
1. Sweet Baby Jesus
If your email address in any way incorporates the phrase, “Sweet Baby Jesus” I am going to giggle. I was so happy when the movie, “Talladega Nights” addressed this because me and my friends had joked about that for years. Whenever a minister uses that phrase I lose it.
2. No one opens emails with “demon” in the address.
I joked recently that the band name, Demon Hunter, makes me want to start a band named “Satan Groin Kickers.” And I still might, but if your email address is “demonfighter” or “satansworstnightmare” I will launch a two prong response. Step one is to get a little sweaty, step two is to delete the email without reading it.
3. Keep it short.
If you ever realize that your email address is longer than most verses in the Bible, there’s a problem. Keep it short. “JesusRocks” or “IHeartJesus” work well. “JesusIsTheReasonfortheSeasonofHopeandLoveSoWeBowDowntoHim,” less good.
4. People are watching.
One of my relatives removed the Jesus fish from her car because she was an intense driver. I’d tell you who but I mentioned her specifically in another post and she told me later, “I can’t go to a wedding in France next month because people will know me.” This site is not that big, but it is true that when you declare Christianity people start looking at you. So be careful what you do. I used to be a mailman. (I was a carny for about four hours until I got fired.) And it was always weird to deliver Playboy and the Promise Keepers propaganda to the same dude.
I don’t have a Christian email address. It’s just theacuffs@yahoo.com which I suppose makes it kind of a heathen address. Maybe yours could witness to mine and we could convert it? It will make a digital faith decision and change itself to “theacuffslovesweetbabyjesus.” OK, that’s a little ridiculous.
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Jon – I love your site. I had a friend send me a link to this site and said it was “one of his favorites” and “hilarious.” Great stuff. Mandy and I have been laughing while reading. It takes me back to some B’ham days, box o’ wine, Athens New Year’s, etc…Tell Jenny and the kids hello.
I loved that part of Talledega Nights, but I felt soo guilty about laughing till I cried.
OMG! Just when I think you’ve peaked, out pops another gem!
You do know your blog is the most copied-pasted-emailed-to-every-pastor-I-know thing in Christian history…right?
In my local group of pastor buddies, “Eye of the freakin’ tiger,” (#108 Not Knowing How to Hold Hands) has long ago achieved catch-phrase status.
Kudos!
My email is hunkaburninluv4god@yahoo.com Is that weird?
I don’t have a “Christian” bumper sticker of any kind for that same reason. I’m fine with people judging Edinboro University of Pennsylvania grads or disc golf players as bad drivers and bad people, I just don’t think I’m always a good representative of my faith on the road.
yea, a little ridiculous but also mucho funny
Ricky Bobby would be proud
RIGHT ON!
I think sweet baby Jesus made you lose that job as a carny. (Really, a carny? That’s awesome!)
This made me laugh. My MIL had an email address that was jesusreallylovesme(at)ilovejesus(dot)net but then she closed it.
Hahaha, this happens all the time with AIM/Yahoo!/MSN screen names. I’ve got a couple of friends with screen names like these, and I always chuckle.
I recently read a friend’s blog about him being a pretty affluent online gamer. He changed his in-game gamer name tag to something along the lines of “Jesus Loves You” to try and keep his game clean, see if anyone out there would friend him because of similar beliefs, and let everyone out there know his stance. It worked for a while, until his name was banned. He played around with other Christian names and they all got banned. When he tried a name with Buddah in it, it was allowed. Interesting and sad I think.
…hilarity ensues lol.
You are right.
When I first got the internet, one of my email addresses was iscaredevils@aol.com.
People always wondered why I worshiped Satan.
Once again you have me rolling. I knew a kid who had errandboy4jesus for an address-actually, I thought that was kinda cool.
Ah, the Jesus fish dilemma…well, it could be worse, in Indiana we have to tell every passing motorist “In God we Trust” with our plates…..when we really don’t. I did an entry on that, and the fish-check it out.
I actually know someone who specifically asked for the non-god license plate. They printed up the wrong one and then told him he had to just deal with it. *sighs*
Is having to have a reminder to trust in god on number plates indicative of how people drive there?
Brilliant.
I used to work in the office at a Christian camp and part of my job was to sort through the applications for high school volunteer staff. Their e-mail addresses usually fell into two catagories: “iwillmakeoutwithyourboyfriend@hotmail.com” or “jesussavedmysoulanddiedtosaveyours1456@hotmail.com. We were equally frightened to hire either of these people.
Uh … not only will DemonFighter be deleted, it will be BLOCKED!!!
And I know you’re being lighthearted, but when I was a teen/college student and somewhat bold in my faith, but still seriously in love with the world, and became aware that people were watching, I didn’t want to make Jesus look back so I too decided to tone down the faith part. WRONG RESPONSE!! LOL. We gotta be light and salt.
Sigh. Those teen years and my weird doctrine.
It’s fun to shame your friends and tell them their hatefulness is making the Dear sweet baby Jesus cry.
Major props for the use of the word “Carny”.. I died. Awesome stuff man.
Hahahaha….that is so true.
If I had a nickel for every time a derivative of “JesusFreak”, “All4Him”, or something like it graced my inbox with another “Forward if you love Jesus and want to proclaim to all of cyberworld that you are not condemned to Hell on this e-Altar call”….
Great post
yes!!! im so glad you posted about this. i work for the management of some well known christian artists and my boss and i have to laugh at the email addresses that get sent in!
my all time favorite (which is inherently contradictory) is: pimpin4jesus@………
When I saw Talladega Nights, I just lost it! It was so stinkin funny to hear someone (besides me) make fun of the “Sweet Baby Jesus” phrase in a prayer.
Good stuff…let’s relive the moment, shall we?…
Dear Lord baby Jesus, or as our brothers in the south call you, “Je-sus,” we thank you so much for this bountiful harvest of Dominos, KFC, and the always delicious Taco Bell. I just want to take time to say thank you for my family. My two beautiful, beautiful, handsome striking sons, Walker, and Texas Ranger, or TR as we call him. And of course my red hot smokin’ wife Carly, who is a stone cold fox.
Man you are dead on. I love your blog, your insight is usually spot on. This was no different. Email names are easy though, doesn’t really require that personal attachment, now when someone changes their name to “Godisgreatgodisgood Lastname” then I will be impressed. Heehee.
I’m fascinated by this “sweet baby Jesus” thing. I’ve been a Christian for nearly thirty years, and to the best of my recollection, never once have I heard a minister use this phrase. Clearly, I’ve been going to the wrong church.
This is so true. I totally succumbed to it a few years ago when I got the domain geekgirl4god.com . It was where my heart was at the time, but now I give people my other email addresses because they seem less foolish (especially since numbers in domains are so early 2000).
Although another one of my domains, paristemi.com , is based on a Bible verse, it falls victim to anther problem – no one can spell it. ::sigh:: Good thing I have other ones I use for personal stuff that aren’t so in your face or lame.
ok, I just saw the sweet baby Jesus scene from Talladega Nights for the first time after reading this post.
HI-LARRY-US!!
LOL, oh gosh, I have to admit that my email is my first name followed by _saved_by_grace…..I’m so sorry LOL
one of mine…purely for family purposes includes my name…the other, purely for prayer request purposes is beloved mama prays at yahoo dot com…that’s right, guilty as charged… I’m guilty of most everything, as a matter of fact…It’s hard to undo 32 years of churchism, isn’t it?!
) LOL but I can certainly laugh out loud at myself and along with everyone else… what have we done to ourselves?!!! oh my!!! i say with dot dot dots and triple exclamation points 
) and a happy face for good will.
good laughs, my pk friend
Whatever happened to the good old-fashioned FirstInitial.LastName@hotmail.com?
When I first read your subject line I was like, “Whoa! He just posted someone’s email address online…their inbox is going to be flooded.” Then I cracked up laughing when I read the post. Awesome.
Heh,
I used to be stepoutoftheboat
But something just occured to me, if you have a gmail account you can literally extend your username like so:
alex@gmail.com =
alex+ourgodisanawesomegod@gmail.com
#4 reminded me of the time my brother told my dad to take the icthus off his car because he doesn’t drive like a Christian.
sisterblessedbythebest
Yes it’s a real email address and yes it’s my mom’s.
Idea for another post going along with this theme — how many different ways can you spell Jesus or Hallelujah or Our God is an Awesome God using the 6 or 7 letters on a license plate.
Your blog makes me chuckle uncontrollably!
I really must stop reading this stuff this late at night. I get laughing, I start thinking up funny things that relate to your funny things, I try to formulate witty comments and I get all awake up again. Really. It takes me another hour to wind down again. You ought to consider putting some sort of warning header across the top when you are this funny.
This is the best. post. ever. A message board where I post has a member named LongAsIGotKingJesus and every time I see her name I cringe and giggle at the same time. I laughed all the way through this post, BTW.
Haha this is awesome. I also love the post about the Youth Pastor goatee. I’m a youth pastor and my friends confronted me about the cliche YP Goatee.
It’s so true
Cheers man – I’ll continue reading. Love it
Thanks for the tips on the email address. Very funny.
Ha, this is funny. Btw, I still get my Playboy subscription (only three more months until it expires, and I don’t plan on renewing), but the Christian mailing lists send out way too much junk mail.
I serve as Youth Pastor at First Trinity Lutheran Church. My assigned email (first initial followed by last name) happens to be jchrist AT firsttrinity DOT com. I use my gmail more often, but that one always makes people laugh.
When my little brother had been at Bible college for a few months, he changed his email username from soccerman to imputedrighteousness777. It was mostly as a joke, but still. I decided it was then that he was officially a Bible college student. Hehe.
“Sweet Baby Jesus” cracks me up every time you say it.
i love the Demon Hunter reference. Although i’m shocked that i am the first one to comment in their defense!! my friend started listening to them and her dad freaked out just because of the name. there’s this face people make when they ask my favorite bands and i say “well, i like [so and so], and [so and so] and Demon Hunter, and [so and so]…” i know they want to scream YOU HEATHEN!!! when i see that face.
insane post, jon!!!!!
ps– my email is freextoxrun@… do the x’s separating the words “free to run” make it seem slightly less holy, or is it just me?
my email address is transformadoporcristo
transformed for christ in spanish!
sometimes when it comes time to make an email address your mind goes blank .. just last month you thought of some awesome email adresses but you can’t remember!! then you think .. oh my gosh i need to do something holy .. who knows who i’m gonna be emailing .. so you come up with something like im4jesus or jesusisthebest or godissoentirelyamazing54
that’s how it usually is with me .
which is why i end up having around 5 different email addresses
because i keep changing my mind and thinking of better ones .
for now transformadoporcristo is good , but i’ll probably end up changing that too , it’s very confusing when i’m giving my email out . and it takes about an hour to spell out .
so yeah . good stuff .
Demon Hunter is AMAZING
"theacuffslovesweetbabyjesus"
this made my day hahaha
This reminded me of the Puritans and the very long, involved things they would name their kids, like:
If-Christ-had- not-died-for- thee-thou-hadst- been-damned -or-
Jesus-Christ-came- into-the-world- to-save
Then there's always Lamentation, Flee-Fornication and Be-Courteous.
great post.