From magidin@uclink.berkeley.edu Subject: Red Iguana Noon:Wrath of Knowledgius, Chapter 15 Date: 26 May 1994 19:19:21 GMT Message-ID: <2s2snp$fcc@agate.berkeley.edu>[In our last episode we saw the Loyal Companion of All That Is Holy, Or Rather Of The Great Red Iguana, Ferret Boy, trying to prevent the doors of the Pube Fort from opening. Outside, with him, is a tank (formerly of the USSR) commanded by the WACSDAAG forces: Angela Dyer, Dan Johnson, Stryder, and Clark Adams]
[...]Angee: Last episode you had me call Ferret Boy a rodent. You should know ferrets aren't rodents!
<screeeeeeeeek>[A blinding flash of light can be glimpsed through the barely open doors]
Voice through the door: |
So, I hear you all are interested in some destruction. Can I join your little party and do some destruction on with you? |
Tim Lehnerer: |
I'm Tim Lehnerer. I just helped some idiot guy capture the Red Iguana. It was extremely easy, by the way... If I may be so bold, why is it that you all are covering your eyes? |
Tim: |
Oh, it must be my hawaiian shirt! Sorry. Let's see what I can do... |
Tim: | Hey, that's neat. Can I have it? |
Tim: | Oops! |
Knowledgius: Swearing will not help your case! Use logical arguments, dammit!In article <2rorft$1r83@inca.gate.net>, Publius <publius@inca.gate.net> wrote: > > *****>>> >
Knowledgius: But...> Atheism is a Religion under any reasonable definition of the term.
Knowledgius]: Hey! Are you insinuating anything about my lifestyle? Who are you to decide what is natural or not? ->I<-, Knowledgius Objectivus, am the Atheist God, and there is plenty supernatural about me. And I'm definitely qualified. I made better time than Zeus in the last heat, in fact...> A 'God' doesn't have to be 'supernatural' to qualify.
[Knowledgius smashes his/her/its powerful fist into the Red Iguana's nose]> I said that > the 'God' of Atheism was an abstraction
Knowledgius: No! No! No!. Could the Laws of Physics and Chemistry have broken your nose? Come on!> depdethebtibg the > cohpothite of the workibgth of the Lawth of Phythicth and Chemithtry.
Knowledgius: Hey! No need to resort to name-calling.> The 'God' of Atheithb ith got 'thupergatural'.
Ferret Boy: [mutters] Way to go, Publius! Keep at him! He looks tired.> Itth 'God' > ith entirely 'batural'. Itth characterithticth are eathily 'provable' > and totally thupportable by the Gatural Thientheth.
Knowledgius: [weakly] No, no, no, no! It's not a religion! It's not the leading religion in the world. Haven't you seen any polls, moron? Atheists are less than 10% of the population!> That ith why > in thith 'Age of Enlightehbeht' the Atheitht Religiog is bot obly > in the athebdabthy, it ith the leadibg Religiog ig the World.
Ferret Boy: [forgets himself and shouts] You tell him! Listen to the Mighty Red Iguana! He knows the Truth when he sees it!> Here in the U TH A it ith the obly Religiob that ith perbitted to be > taught in our public thchoolth. If you dob't believe be, athk the > thchool childreb what they are taught to believe about the origib > of Life abd the Theory of Evolutiob
Ferret Boy: [sees Knowledgius is slumping to the floor under this barrage of nonsense] Way to go, Publius! You show him! Tell him about the Supreme Court! Tell him about the Supreme Court!> - whothe bathic Tebet ith that > Life begag as the rethult of a pribordial chebical accidebt, and > throgh the procethth of 'adaptatiob' abd 'thurvival of the fittetht' > arrived at itth prethegt thtate, with Bag at the top of the > Aghibal Kihgdob.
[Knowledgius lets out a ragged breath and collapses unconcious on the floor]> By edict of our Thuprebe Court, go altergative > cogthept is perbitted to be taught. > PUBLIUTH
Ferret Boy: [covers his ears] Remember, you aren't supposed to take the Lord's Name in vain!> > *****>>> >
====================================================================== "It's not denial. I'm just very selective about what I accept as reality." --- Calvin ("Calvin and Hobbes") ====================================================================== Arturo Magidin magidin@uclink.berkeley.edu magidin@math.berkeley.edu
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