God’s Inbox: Time Magazine’s Mail.app humour
Time Magazine has published a humourous graphical essay by Evan Eisen on God’s Inbox.
The picture is full of visual gags (of varying quality).
They range from the files and folders on the Desktop (Jesus Baby pics, etc) to the subject lines and senders in God’s Inbox (surfrgrl@myspace.com “Can you, like, clear up my skin before the prom?”):
Download a PDF of the image 
from the Time Magazine web site and enjoy the joke at a higher resolution.
Personally, I think it is a fake. Using Mail.app adds initial credibility to the story, but I just can’t believe God doesn’t use Quicksilver.
[Thanks to Aaron , the developer of the Letterbox widescreen plugin for Mail.app for tipping me off about this.]
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December 8th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
He uses Quicksilver?
You mean even God’s scared of the command line? :-)
December 9th, 2006 at 12:10 am
You think it’s a fake? Really? Or is this just your way of telling me that you’re not going to share His email address?
What troubles me is that it appears that God uses Quark XPress. Who still uses Quark by choice?
December 9th, 2006 at 2:13 am
Of course it’s a fake. Richard Dawkins would be mailing from a .ac.uk address. ;)
December 9th, 2006 at 2:17 am
Michael writes “Richard Dawkins would be mailing from a .ac.uk address.”
No he wouldn’t - after all, with apologies to Psalm 100, “it is us that made ourselves, not God”, so he’d be using his richarddawkins.net domain for the purpose ;)
December 9th, 2006 at 4:39 am
How do you spell Blasphemy again ?
December 9th, 2006 at 6:06 am
Where are all the image based emails touting penny stocks? the ads for enlarging body parts? the ones for reducing the size of other body parts? the mail-order university diplomas? the Nigerian millionaires offering to give you their money if you send a little of your own first? and all the completely empty messages with friendly subject lines used to confirm a working address in preparation for all of the above?
All I can say is “I want His spam filter”.
December 9th, 2006 at 10:43 am
>All I can say is “I want His spam filterâ€.
December 9th, 2006 at 11:17 am
It might not be a fake. You can use QuickSilver with the menubar icon hidden, so it may be running in the background. Very funny indeed
December 9th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Mail2God…
Ook God krijgt email…
……
January 30th, 2007 at 4:18 am
It’s funny
September 24th, 2008 at 12:36 am
First of all I find the essay on God’s inbox very funny. But in my opinion the thing that makes it funny is the realization that it is actually very likely that millions of people really turn to God to ask Him for His help with typically human problems, which in the eyes of society at large may seem trivial and unimportant but which in the eyes of an individual may be of vital importance.
Everybody knows the Lord’s Prayer. It is to be found in the Bible. It is also called the model prayer: Jesus spoke the Lord’s Prayer when people asked Him to teach them how to pray:
Look at the simplicity of the things that Jesus asked from His Father in the Lord’s Prayer:
He asked for:
– respect for His Father’s name and reputation (hallowed be thy name)
– a world where governments really do what is good for their people (thy kingdom come)
– obedience exercised by people who will benefit from following the advice of people who are wiser than they are (thy will be done)
– bread ( something very ordinary to ask for, almost trivial in the rich Western world)
– forgiveness ( people do wrong things that harm themselves and others; so common in our daily lives)
– not being tempted to do things that cause harm and suffering (lead us not into temptation)
– deliverance from evil (evil here means everything that all people fear: suffering, sickness, death, poverty)
To sum it all up:
I think that millions of people really ask for the things mentioned in God’s inbox. And there is nothing wrong with it: very human, very funny, but also very realistic. I think that people really pray that way. And that is OK.