A little rant

All right. I have had it with those emails that tell you if you love Jesus then you will send this email to 500 people and he will bless you. Or, if you really love your family send this email to everyone of them. I just got one a second time, probably from the same person I'm not sure. It starts off talking about untimely death. It proceeds to quote Galatians 6:7, "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows." The email then goes on tell stories of people dying after certain events. It starts with this one: "JOHN LENNON: Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said: "Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him" (1966). Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times."
Now most people that know some sort of history of the past two decades knows that John Lennon was shot in 1980, that's 14 years later. Coincidence? Most likely. There are several other examples, but this one is stupid. Is there a good chance that Lennon was misquoted? Sure. Was what he said or quoted as having said wrong? Yes. However, I do not believe a person should take Galatians 6:7 as meaning if you mock God you will die soon after saying it. This is not what that text is saying.
Look at the context of the verse. While it does say that one cannot mock God, the next verse says that one who sows according to one's sinful nature will reap destruction from that nature, the one who sows from the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. It is not saying that those who sow sin will die because of it, because we all will die. Those who sow and reap from their sinful nature and those who sow and reap to the Spirit will die physically. While those who sowed to the Spirit will live on in heaven, those who sowed according to their sinful flesh's desire will not. This is what is being said here.
These verses are found in the midst of Paul's discussion about bringing a brother or sister in Christ back into the fold when they are found to be in sin. After these verses, Paul discusses doing good to all people, especially those who are believers.
This type of attitude of blaming Lennon's assassination on his quote in a magazine 14-years before, is reminiscent of what happened after he said it. People burned their records, told them they were going straight to hell and so forth. Is it any wonder they fled into the hands of Eastern mystic religion?
Whatever happened to showing our neighbors we love them? Whatever happened to doing good to all people? John Lennon is most likely in hell reaping what he sowed, because Evangelicals in America pushed him away from Christianity more than they know. You think you are doing good, but sometimes you really aren't.