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When you follow and write about the news on a daily basis, as I do, you run across some pretty crazy items and stories which make you scratch your head, laugh, or cause smoke to rise up out of your ears.

And then there are the ones that simply make you shout, “WTF?!”

This is one of those.

Costco says they will no longer carry a dinosaur-themed birthday cake for kids because a woman in Arizona claimed it promotes Satanism.

All together now: WTF?!

Jessica Eckerdt of Queen Creek purchased a dinosaur cake from Costco for her son’s birthday party, and after lighting the candles and preparing to sing ?Happy Birthday To You? she noticed that the legs and feet of the blue and green dino looked like the number ?666,? the Sign of the Beast.

Oh my gosh! Clear the room and start praying! Satan just snuck into my house via a cake! Head for the hills and don’t look back!

In an email Ms. Eckerdt wrote:

“I was extremely shocked and upset to see a demonic symbol written clear as day on my six-year-old son’s birthday cake. What was supposed to be a whimsical dinosaur became something very distasteful. I was extremely surprised at Costco for allowing such an inappropriate joke be sold to an unsuspecting victim.?

I’m a Christian, and I’ve also purchased a dinosaur cake for my daughter’s birthday when she was five, but I’ve never feared that a cake would indoctrinate my child into the ways of Beelzebub. Probably because I know that my own beliefs and the ones I’ve shared with my daughter are strong enough to stand against an “invasion” of the Prince of Darkness from a freaking cake!

Sadly, Ms. Eckerdt quite obviously lives in constant fear of things she need not be afraid of if she had any real faith. And to her I offer this advice: Stop teaching your son to be so paranoid. Life’s far too short.