Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Deer hunters for Jesus

A local radio personality is to speak at an Outreach Dinner at a local church about how special it is for fathers and sons (and daughters) to get out in the woods and hunt, and also about his strong faith and his determination to bring men to God. The story in the paper says when he’s not hunting deer “he is likely hunting souls.” It also says that the largest deer he has “harvested” is a ten-point buck in Alabama.

The “harvested” euphemism is a useful one to justify hunting, if it needs to be justified – hunters, after all, can say that God directed us to have dominion over all the animals – and we might as well go ahead and apply it to the process of proselytizing for God. And the “hunter” is more like a farmer. He plants a seed, he waters it, he clears the weeds (evil thoughts) and keeps the plants in line – his converts are like so many rows of corn.

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