Tick Season 𖢥

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Ticks are God’s creatures. So are mosquitoes, tapeworms, and even cats. And God Himself called them “very good”.

Of course, that was before the Fall, when ticks would have been vegetarian (from a young-earth creationist perspective).

When Adam sinned, God cursed creation, and now we suffer the consequences of that curse. Of course, we’re the stewards of God’s creation, and it’s still fundamentally “good”, but probably not “very good”, and God gave us dominion over creation, and ticks transmit Lyme disease, and are literally out for blood, and—

When Adam sinned, God cursed creation, and now we suffer the consequences of that curse. Of course, we’re the stewards of God’s creation, and it’s still fundamentally “good”, but probably not “very good”, and God gave us dominion over creation, and ticks transmit Lyme disease, and are literally out for blood, and—

…Ya know what? Just kill them. Preferably with fire.

Genesis 1:31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Psalm 50:10-11

For every animal of the forest is mine,

    and the cattle on a thousand hills.

I know every bird in the mountains,

    and the insects in the fields are mine.