There is certainly an over-abundance of anecdotal "religious" chain e-mails clogging up many of our inboxes already, and in my opinion most are either overly sentimental to the point of manipulative, completely fictional (not factual, like the Bible), or downright doctrinally unsound. And of course most include the none-too-subtle hint (threat) near the end that failure to propagate them further indicates a lack of love for Jesus and/or your friends. I love both, and yet I refuse to circulate the vast majority of those which I receive.