Hug a bunny

It is at this time of year that bunny huggers en masse are most chagrined. If I mention or write about anything concerning hunting they wail and send up the hue and cry admonishing me for being so cruel and heartless.

I suppose in their lollipop world, when Bambi grows old his family must make the gut wrenching decision to put him in hospice where he can stay sedated and drift on to sleep, peacefully with a smile on his face. And as he dies he remains comfortable throughout it all, lovingly surrounded by his kids and grandkids..

Hmmm I have looked extensively all around the 4700 acres of the plantation and have yet to see a whitetail deer hospice. I wonder if Obama-Care has forced them all out of business too.

This entire notion of humanizing animals is quite bizarre to me. A natural death to an unregulated herd of whitetail in these parts is starvation, disease, or being viciously killed by coyotes when they are at their weakest points and cannot bound away to elude them.

News flash: Deer don’t wear condoms and they don’t take birth control pills. Unless they are properly thinned down and harvested by hunters, they will overpopulate. The wolves, cougars, and grizzly bears that once regulated them are not around anymore, (at least in northernmost Florida). It’s when the herd grows too large that it will eat everything in sight until it reaches the point where deer are forced to stand on their hind legs to reach what little browse remains.

Guess what happens to Bambi’s tiny little fawn offspring that cannot reach that high to eat? Those cute little buggars begin to slowly starve and eventually die a cruel death. Sadly there is not even a funeral and none of the family even claims the body. When the herd gets to this overpopulated state generally disease sets in and wipes out the adults too and it isn’t pretty to see.

Kindly “Mother Nature” isn’t so kindly eh?

Logic tells us that a few well place bullets that quickly and humanely dispatch an animal is the superior alternative. During the process it not only controls the herd’s explosive growth, but it yields some tasty steaks, burger, and sausage. And the heartless villains of Honey Lake can even process and smoke it and make venison jerky for you at our Honey Lake Smokehouse and Wild Game Processing facility.

This sounds more reasonable and in fact yummy to me, but alas logic and sound wildlife management processes fall on deaf ears to the bunny hugger crowd. They hear what they want to hear.

I think sometimes that is how it is with the Bible. People hear what they want to hear. For example we hear the phrase, “Take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”, as though the Bible advocates our taking personal vengeance against those who would offend us. These people choose to ignore that right below that verse and in many other sections of the Bible it tells us not to do it.

Things can be taken out of context in the Bible and twisted to mean whatever anyone wants it to mean to serve their purposes, even evil purposes. An extreme example would be the infamous Westboro Baptist church that harasses military family’s by protesting at soldier’s funerals because they don’t like the military’s stand on homosexuality. Now there is a fine example of someone so letting their light shine that someone would want to become a Christian NOT!

That is why I advocate and recommend that everyone read and study the Bible for themselves. Take it in context and believe every word of it and it will tell you whether or not you should get a divorce, or get drunk this weekend. You might just find that yes, the first miracle of Jesus was changing water to wine, but Jesus didn’t drive his cart home drunk after the wedding party and crash it in a head on collision and kill innocent people.

We should not just hear what we want to hear, but we should listen to what the Spirit is telling us.

Rev.2:29
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.