God will punish you

I am sure everybody must have received mails which either contains a original photo of somebody or some Chinese good luck charm or some mantra which, if not forwarded to 15 people will bring bad luck.
What is it with God and forwarding emails?What is it with the number 15 or 20?What is it with getting the results quicker by sending the email to more number of people? Why would, not forwarding an email make God angry and punish the unfortunate soul with bad luck? Some emails have to be forwarded within a time limit for good results and some say that they should not be sent tot he person who sent them.

Is it God who has initiated the email chain? If so, does anybody have his email address? I would really love to send some queries on the confusions i have over sending forwards which would bring me good luck. Some of the questions would be..
Does he prefer a yahoo ID or a gmail ID?
Does he IM too? Im would be better so that i can get instant responses.
Does he use a laptop or a regular PC?
Windows or Linux?

The questions can go on.....

If it is not God (which i am damn sure) then who initiated it? Is he a messenger of God ? Did God himself asked him/her in some divine way to send out an email and see who all forward it and whoever does not forward it punish those non believers with bad luck. Why does God care ? I mean what is so auspicious about forwarding emails that he feels that those who don't forward must be punished. Is this a test of faith or something which separates the saints from sinners?

What if i got an email which i should forward but i am marooned in a remote island away from traces of civilization. Will God consider that as an exception or will he still punish me with bad luck? And look at the long list of people who actually do it religiously. What if a mail is sent asking people to make a difference in a poor man's life by giving away one third of what you earn or else God will punish them with bad luck. How many would do it? I have the answer .... Almost None. Then why do they forward emails, because it is free and you don't have to put much effort.

Then there are other mails which when forwarded you will get a reward from Bill Gates and then another email forward which says some girl needs to be operated and every forward you do will earn her $2.....

Why does anyone get paid just for forwarding emails (Except Software Engineers ;) ) ? And that is the reason everyone is shifting to computers and thats another story.