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Q.  Dear God,

Our son Billy is causing us a heap of worry. He never does what we tell him, and last week, I found an empty beer can under his bed, and he’s only seventeen! I just don’t know what to do anymore. Can your holy words help us, God?

Signed,
Frustrated in Frisco

 

A. Dear Frustrated in Frisco,

Boy, teenagers can sure be a handful. Luckily, my inerrant, perfect scriptures address this situation directly. The first thing you need to do is to round up all of the oldest people in your town. I recommend looking in the magazine room at the public library, and any place they sell egg salad.

After you’ve got a few old folks together, all you have to do is find some medium sized rocks, and then use them to bludgeon little Billy until he dies. I recommend finding stones that are small enough to be thrown overhand, but still big enough to cause internal bleeding.

It's just like I said in Deuteronomy 22:19, 

“His father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey your voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall purge the evil from your midst.”

Sometimes tough love is the best kind.

Sincerely,
God


Last Week's Column...

Q. Dear God,

Boy am I in a pickle! My new mother in law is coming to stay for the weekend, and the lawn is a mess! I haven't had time to weed or mow the grass in weeks, and I'm afraid of making a bad impression. Help me God! What does your inerrant gospel have to say about a situation like this?

Signed,
Frazzled in 'Fargo
 

A.  Dear Frazzled in Fargo,

Don't let yard work get you down! Everything will come up roses if you just follow my words from Leviticus 25:44, and get yourself a slave!

 "44'You may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you."

Those maple-leaf-worshipping Canucks are just a hop skip and a jump away. So chin up Frazzled, just scamper across that border and enslave yourself a pagan! With a little help from the Good Book, your lawn will be looking like gangbusters in no time.

Sincerely,
God

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 I hope that this feature doesn't upset anybody.
There's really no malicious intent here... just a little fun with a certain Good Book that can seem a tad outdated sometimes.
 

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