Phil, your writing won't offend me because I delete those 
messages.  If those things are a test of friendship, the tester has problems.

earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>Carol,
>
>I'm glad you brought this up because I have literally been considering
>writing my opinion of the Christian, send this to your five best friends and
>you will be blessed, type messages which I have seen for many years on the
>net.  I'm still thinking about it and trying how best to write about it
>without offending anybody.  Fact chance of me not offending somebody.  I get
>myself into more trouble than any Christian I know and here I am such a meak
>and mild young man, too.  Handsome, and as cute as the dickens.  Anyhow,
>I'll end up sticking my foot into it whenever I do write about it.
>
>Phil.

John