Letters for god..or money hungry fisherman?
Letters..
Bound in several smaller brown paper bags wrapped in plastic where recently washed up on the shore of Atlantic City, N.J. These letters although some not truly heartfelt, some were. Dozens of people pleading to god to give them second chances, to make up for mistakes they felt they had made. Others simply ask god questions about what can be done to help them. These letters originally addressed to a pastor (maybe) were never retrieved and never read. A quote from the article states
“I guess rather than just throw them in the garbage, maybe they thought they’d set them out to sea to bless these people,” he said. “So they made a trip to Atlantic City, maybe went to a casino, and put the letters in the water.”
As people started looking into this there are small segments of the story that do not fall into place so perfectly and if they aren’t solved I would personally think they could cause a small uproar. The Pastor to whom the letters were addressed can not be significantly identified, his previous addresses listed are full of neighbors saying he never lived anywhere near them.
The biggest part of this saga regards the man and son who found these “messages in a bottle” but the last quote from what I read says the fisherman said he is sad that most of the writers never had their letters read. But he hopes to change that soon: He is putting the collection up for sale on eBay.
Okay, maybe I’m looking to far into this but these letters are personal and private and I’m sorry but anyone with some extra money can purchase them on eBay. Was it stated somewhere that if you want to send messages to the holy one himself just take a picture, put a price tag on it and sell it on eBay?
I could be wrong and the nice little fisherman may want some of these letters to be bought by what a priest, because I know of at least a dozen priests who shop on eBay.Or maybe someone who had written one of the letters? No, not so much!! And who gets the money for this endeavor? Pretty much these people have their privacy invaded, their names and addresses can be identified and its for sale for anyone to buy??
–So next time you go to confession I want a recording of it so I can sell it on eBay. Your right, no I don’t. I don’t think I could be that insensitive to all those people’s deepest thoughts and regrets.
