By: Catholic Mom
In Genesis, God did command Adam to subdue the earth so I would say squishing a scorpion or swatting mosquito just goes with the subduing. At the moment, I am trying to subdue a long-eared...
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I live in central Texas too. This morning at 2am my son woke me to complain that Brother Tarantula was threatening him. My investigation revealed a large brown fuzzy thing on the floor with more legs...
View ArticleBy: Jeron
Scorpions?! Oh, the hell with that!!! Grab a boot & go to town! I scream like a little girl at the sight of a small spider (much less at a brown recluse – one which tried biting me in the bathroom...
View ArticleBy: Stephanie
Luke 10:19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall hurt you. Hmm…wonder if that means I can stomp on a scorpion...
View ArticleBy: Christine
Jeron, The worst thing about the Brown Recluse thing is that I’m not sure what they look like. Every picture I’ve forced myself to look at shows the stupid things from the belly. EXCUSE ME, I’M NOT...
View ArticleBy: Jonathan
“As the Texas summer begins and we are reminded once again that we are living in a climate inhospitable to human life, it becomes a little more difficult to live by St. Francis’ example.” This echos...
View ArticleBy: Darwin
I think that St. Francis is not what you need in this situation. Perhaps, instead, you need to fall back on the Albigensian Crusade and proclaim: “Kill them all and let God sort them out.” Then call...
View ArticleBy: Theocoid
Yeah, I have a story about a certain Brother Wasp from when I was around 7 years old. I took Sister Shirley’s story about St,. Francis quite literally. The wasp, unfortunately, did not.
View ArticleBy: majellamom
Well, you are making me feel much better about visiting my MILs house! After two visits in a row of seeing black widow spiders (she SWEARS they are a spider that tries to LOOK like black widows, and...
View ArticleBy: Adoro te Devote
OK, I gotta chime in on this. In MN, we don’t have scorpions, but we have mosquitos that would carry small children away. And we have some large spiders (although thankfully not huntsman spiders, even...
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