Say Hello to My Little Satan

Everyone that knows me, knows I am obsessed with road trips.  To me, one of the important aspects of the road trip is having an inanimate traveling companion.  This is object or figures that you travel with in order to facilitate goofy photo ops with famous destinations and landmarks.  The most traditional and possibly most notorious inanimate companion is the Yard Gnome.

Also popular, is the low-budget Flat Stanley.

I however, prefer to ride with the Devil.

It all started back in 2008 when me and my wife went to the local antique mall and my wife found the little guy for sale for 6 bucks.  Unfortunately,  she mistook the "2" in front of the six for a dollar sign and we didn't realize until after we checked out that we at spend 26 dollars on this little trinket.  After being tricked into buying him, I vowed to make it worth it and decided to take him with us wherever we traveled. 

So, he went with us everywhere we went.......

To the beach.....

 

To Natural Bridge, VA...........

To the aptly named "Devil's Head Rock", in Chimney Rock, NC......

Here he is in front of the Sear's tower in Chicago (I will be dead an buried before I call it the Willis Tower).....

And here is Little Satan in front of St. Augustine's famous haunted lighthouse.....

Here he is posing with a real live Indian in Cherokee, NC......

And Knoxville, TN's famous Wigsphere......

In New Orleans he posed both in front of Marie Laveau's grave....

 

And the Superdome.....

He has stood at the Southernmost point in the United States......

Little Satan joined us on our trip to Disney World, where I road roller-coasters with a porcelain bank in my pocket in order to get these photo Ops.

I wanted to get a picture of the Little guy with some of the characters.......So I whipped him out in front of Pooh and Tigger.....

Mass chaos ensued as Pooh's body guard started yelling "What's that thing?"

Of course the little guy is always around to celebrate the holidays with us.....

And its always fun to plug him into every novelty photo app around......

He has always been with me through the hard times in my life.  

Like the time I back my car into a pole at the court house parking lot.

Or the time my septic tank backed up and I realized that it was buried under asphalt and had to dig it up....

Then there was the time I took him to my colonoscopy......

Our trip to DC gave him a whole world of photo ops.....

Plus, he got to meet his favorite president at Madame Tussaud's.

And New York was truly his kind of town......

Of course, what I always wanted to get a picture of Little Satan with a celebrity.  Last year my dream was realized, when I met Honey Boo Boo......

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Angry Christians

I wanted to talk a minute about mean and angry Christians.  I would never say that all or most Christians are mean.  Christian principles are a blueprint for kindness, which is why it blows my mind when I see things like this.

This signs recently showed up in Clyde, NC and ruffled some feathers.  What is puzzling that this sign acts like it is ridiculous that someone would possibly suggest that the God would be for tolerance or coexisting.  I'm pretty sure Jesus talked quite a bit about loving your neighbor and all that jazz.

Where does all this anger and bile come from?   Its one thing having beliefs, but how could anyone that subscribes to Christian beliefs think this is the right thing to do.

Check out this rolling angermobile....

That little line about Mohammed is ridiculously antagonistic......Yikes.........

Of course what discussion on angry Christians would be complete without a mention of our local Rev. Grizzard, who make national headlines by BURNING BIBLES.

Then of course we have the patron saint of mean angry Christians:  Fred Phelps.

Not my photo

Possibly one of the meanest men to ever call themselves a Christian, Fred Phelps was the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church which made themselves famous by picketing the funerals of dead homosexuals with charming signs that said "God Hates Fags".  Not content being hated only half the population of the Country Fred and his followers started picketing the funerals of dead soldiers with signs that said "Thank God for Dead Soldiers".  Fred's level of offensiveness was so brazen that some felt that he was simply trying to get attention.  On one occasion the local KKK actually held a counter protest to stop Phelps from picketing a dead soldiers funeral.  This would be the one and only time in history that the KKK would be considered the lesser of two evils.  Fred Phelps recently passed away.  Personally I was shocked that someone this mean was capable of death.

Now, I certainly don't want to go on any long winded rant here, but please.......if there are any angry Christians out there, please don't be a Fred Phelps.   Just relax.  Jesus was a cool guy, with some great ideas.  He was all for treating people with respect regardless of who they were.   Just think about that next time you want to make a billboard telling gay people to kiss your ass.

To cleanse our pallet, I wanted to end with a list of Christians who are/were neither angry or mean......

Robin Roberts.........

Jimmy Carter.....

Martin Luther King......

Pope Francis......

Okay, that's actually a different pope, but close enough

Jesus H. Christ.....

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