He's not so bad, but the followers....

We've had the mormons come door to door. We've had the baptists come to witness as well around Easter time, but today was a first.

Someone with a presort first class permit thought to send me a copy of this in the mail:

What a special treat! I didn't really need to read more than the back cover to see it was a "Jews For Jesus" special delivery printed by Messianic Vision Press . Googling for Sid and his tract shows there's not much critique or discussion of the book out there, but its for sale in lots of places as a good witnessing tool. There's some weird links arguing about 'life matrix' theories as well, but that's research for some other time.

As I'm not a member of any of the synagogues in Austin, and as this came to my residence address (public record), not my mailing address, I'm thinking someone put a hell of a lot of effort into this. They dug throught the phone book or the tax rolls of Austin for the jewish names & addresses, and paid for the book & the postage. I'm sure the book gets sold in bulk for pennies on the dollar, but still, there's some cash & time involved in all of this.

The book will hit the recycle bin, and I respect the effort that went in to whomever's project this was, but in all honesty, I wish my anonymous benefactor would have thrown the $1.50 plus time elsewhere. Perhaps toward the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless or even the Town Lake Animal Shelter if they didn't want to have to come face-to-face with homo sapiens in need.

Of course this could be a gag from someone I know out there. Naw... all my friends would send me something from the online dog-poop ordering service. They've got class.