I want to know—-

                Who started this?

          When people think of Christians fighting the devil, what do most people picture?

                 You guessed it:  Most people imagine a group of people standing in a circle with their arms around each other—until Satan attacks.  Then the Christians grap Bibles, put them over their heads, and crouch down, praying for Satan to leave.

           This joke must have been thought up by the same people who decided Jesus is anemic—why else would He have such pale skin? 

             He also has hay fever.  Well, He must!  Why else would He have such vacant, watery eyes all the time in pictures?

               And He frequents hair salons.  That would explain the long, wavey hair or curls we see on Jesus in paintings so often. 

                And of course, He looks as if His dog just died. 

            The facts that Jesus was a muscular outdoorsman who made a living as a carpenter seems to have been lost somewhere.  Also, the fact that He lived during Roman times, when Shorter hair on men was the fashion. 

              How could we forget that He was a person with a sense of humor, though?  He called two of His disciples “sons of thunder”.  He created too many hilarious creatures for us to count. 

              By the way, Jesus was totally victorious.  Why would He look sad ALL the time?

             But, back to the Christians…

             Christians are told, in Ephesians 6, to put on the armor of God.  Among other things were the breastplate of righteousness and the sword of truth.  Those were the best fighting equipment to be had in that day.  In our day, we would say to put on the bullet-proof vest of righteousness, and take up the gun of faith—which I WOULD describe as a .577 T-REX—because it’s so powerful—except that the T-REX recoils out of your hands.  God’s Word isn’t like that.  It’s totally usable.  Like a powerful rifle, though, the Bible can bring down any evil.

             So Christians aren’t cowering in a corner.

             We are armed.

             And we’re dangerous. 

             To Evil.  And the Evil One.

              I’d still like to know who came up with the other ideas, though…