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My Cuddly Friend Jesus

by Cowboy Bob Sorensen  When Easter is on the way, stores get greedy selling candy, cheap toys, rabbit images, and all sorts of nonsense. (At least we do not have to listen to pusillanimous secular Easter music.) To add to the stress, kids  expect  gifts because of marketing. Then there are atheists and feral legalistic Christians who promote  the lie that Easter is pagan in origin . At least I can hear the birds with springtime songs chirping away while I walk to my car in the pre-dawn cool air, that is a good thing. A picture taken at a big box store of a cuddly Jesus, run through  cleanup.pictures That other stuff is grating, but this kind of thing puts a burr under my saddle. Mayhaps someone will say, "Oh, goodie! They're keeping Jesus in Easter!" Not hardly!  Who is this guy?  Some long-haired white guy in a robe and sandals with a beard that wouldn't antagonize anyone. He's not intimidating. I've got some bad news for you, sunshine. First of all,...