Horror Frogs: Weird News from the World of Nature

Presumably the frogs see nothing horrible about themselves. Nor, apparently, does their Maker. But humans are incorrigible aesthetes who constantly muddle their aesthetic impression with their moral ones.

That tendency to muddle morality and aesthetics, by the way, was a useful opportunity for divine catechesis.

For further exploration of the uses and misuses of “ick” in teaching moral truth, go here, here, and here.