All that did was make me hungry for deer meat casserole.

It's the same specious statements from 4,000 years ago.

From the same people who think it's their god testing their patience (rather than their own poor aim) every time they miss 'the big one'. lol.

hahah  I am on the waiting list too.

I am lickin my chops!!

I missed the first page. Oh, well. We'll see if those hicks know how to get to the second page of a forum discussion. If they're smart, I'll get an instant ban. I'm honestly surprised they let me register at all.

Nice post and a witty name. Did you see that guys comment after yours?

Lemme toss in a fiftieth of a dollar here, folks.  When I was growing up, I used to hunt and fish with my dad.  These days, he still hunts and fishes, though I never took up enough of an interest to be serious about it.  We retain as good a relationship as a father and son can possibly have and we're both stone cold anti-theists--adding on to that, he was most firmly convinced by reading The Origin of Species and textbooks on Eco/Evolution that I brought home from college, along with my own analysis of biological findings in my post-graduate career.  These douchebags may make some statement about communing with Jebus out in the wilderness, but they don't speak for their entire community.  Most gun and hunting enthusiasts I've met are unapologetic and serious drinkers who hate Sunday laws as much as they hate gun laws.  They might be republicans, they might hate hippies, but they ain't churchgoers and they can be brought around with logic, given time and concern.

First of all, closetghey had a pic of a toddler sitting on a dead deer. For someone who takes so much "awe" in nature, doesn't that seem a bit irreverant on several levels? Not to mention the germ/lyme disease threat?

Second, can't remember the name of who posted this comment, but

Was there even one correct statement in that paragraph of blabber? The first sentence doesn't even make any logical sense, what with him using words out of context and making up phrases like "growing inward with complexity" and not understanding mutation. Additionally, that flagellar motor argument is really getting tired. This guy has it wrong too... only cells have flagella, not viruses. How could something not even alive evolve the necessary structures...? Nevermind, he's stupid. (It's also millionths of a millimeter in size, not millions of millimeters.... ahhhh attack of the giant E. coli!)

I grew up in Alaska. I lived there for most my life, only leaving long-term for the army, and finally when I moved here to Ohio three years ago.

There, hunting and fishing are a part of life. Where I grew up, the nearest grocery store was 50 miles away, and unreachable in the winter. Beef was $4.00/lb, back in the 80s. Fresh vegetables were unknown.

So, there was a lot of salmon and halibut and venison. Hunting wasn't specifically sport, it was more about putting food in the freezer. However, there is something about being out in the wild, even when you live in the wild. It is awe-inspiring. There is much to life that is lost out here in the real world, I think. (There's even more that you have that living in the middle of nowhere lacks, so the trade-off is worth it.)

I've killed a few deer in my life. I've always enjoyed the hunting, and never enjoyed the killing. I have always felt guilty about whacking a deer, but I've always appreciated the food.

I haven't hunted in years, but I remember being alone on a mountaintop, and feeling I was the only one in the universe at just that moment, and everything felt BIG. Much bigger than me. It was a revelation to me. Of course, the revelation was, the earth wasn't going to miss us when we're gone, and the universe cares even less, but it was a revelation nonetheless.

I guess I'm just offering a half-assed defence of their idiotic hick statements. Of course, I never really liked most of the folks who hunted simply for sport. They'd come up to stay in the lodges, and they were almost always assholes. (Yeah, I'm talking about you, Larry Hagman. Fake hundred-dollar bills with your picture on them. Give a real tip next time, you fucking cheapskate!)

Plus, that's part of their rationalization for slamming deer anyway. "Gettin' out to nate-chur! Gonna get close to God's creation."

Then they take the backstrap and a haunch, and either give the rest away (good) or throw it away (happens quite a lot).

wow, I got registered on that site and gave my 2 cents and I got demeaned, belittled, attacked and threatened.  Those folks are uptight! I would love to share the interesting replys to my post. However, they were all deleted and I was thrown out into the cold.

Same Christians, different day.