A very Cornelius Christmas.

A few months ago, I wrote a post in which I said as a Christian you had to root for University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow. In order to remove some of the inevitable heat I would take in claiming that Christians must support a quarterback just because he’s a believer, I told you that I didn’t make up that rule. I simply received it from the wise beak of a dove named Cornelius who is employed by the Southern Baptist Convention.

I intimated that he regularly drops of messages for me on my doorstep. Wes Molebash, a talented artist who I hope to help get published, agreed to draw Cornelius. Of all the things I could collectively give you this Christmas, an illustration of a talking dove that dispenses wisdom seemed to be the best idea for a very Stuff Christians Like Christmas.

Without further ado, I give you Cornelius …

I assure you, I tried to write something hilarious about him. In one draft of a post, Cornelius did this long monologue about how he used to live with the Geico lizard when they were both coming up in the animal spokes model world. And how his real name was “Gary” and he wasn’t even British. In other post, he started an organization to prevent people from confusing pigeons with doves. It was called PAPAD (People Aware Pigeons Aren’t Doves) and it’s main goal was to distinguish lovely doves from flying rat pigeons.

But I was never happy with what I wrote. It all ended up being lame.

So instead I decided to just post the image and leave the funny up to you. It’s going to be quiet today on the site because it’s Christmas Eve, but if you’re up for it, let’s play a simple game of fill in the blanks, Cornelius style.

Fill in this sentence in the comments:

I Cornelius, am really excited about _______________ in 2010.

(Clearly, I would write that as “I Cornelius, am really excited about the release of the Stuff Christians Like book in 2010.”)

That’s it.

Merry Christmas!