EK: "But you
meant it."
IDK: "Did not."
EK: "Did so!
Gotcha!"
IDK: "Did not!
Just the D word."
EK: "Close enough!
And furthermore ID's a religion. Gotcha!"
IDK: "'tis not!"
EK: "'tis!"
IDK: "Even without the
G-word?"
EK: "Yup!"
IDK: "'tis not!
Hey, the D-word makes deism–D for D, catch?
The G-word makes it theism. Theism is
religion. Is deism?"
EK: "Sure is, any good
globally sensitive, broadminded, tenured deconstructionist multiculturalist knows that. Everybody knows that.
Gotcha!"
IDK: "Everybody?"
EK: "Especially
everybody. And Everybody knows it's
unconstitutional to teach—"
IDK: "It's
unconstitutional to teach what Jefferson and Ben Franklin, even
Voltaire—?"
EK: "That's an
insult!"
IDK: "Insult to who?
Jefferson?
Franklin? Voltaire?"
EK: "Insult to us.
They're outmoded."
IDK: "OK, ya got me!
Have it your way. If ID is a religion, Evo's
got to be one too, to the great god Atheism, the A-word.
And therefore unconstitutional to … and so forth."
EK: "Not fair!
IDK: "Is so!"
EK: "Is not!"
IDK: "Is!
Sure it's fair! Hey, Evo is a religion and
eligible for faith-based subsidies! Cool, huh?
Gotcha!"
EK: "Evo'd never stoop
to that. Unconstitutional."
ID: "What about Evo's
science-based subsidies, oceans and galaxies of it, which Evo doesn't
want ID to have any of?"
EK: "ID's not
science."
IDK: "Is too!"
EK: "Is not!
It's stupid, fraudulent, spurious, religious – religious and
outmoded and primitive and prehistoric. So not
science!"
IDK: "Is too.
Maybe G-word guys aren't scientists but D-word guys are."
EK: "You all look
alike to me."
IDK: "Not alike!"
EK: "Are!"
IDK: "Not!
We think induction, G-word guys think deduction--like you."
EK: "You're lumping
us–us Evoeans--with G-word guys?"
IDK: "Why not?
You think alike. Just as doctrinaire.
Why not?"
EK: "Because you're
insulting, stupid, outmoded, fraudulent, spurious, devious, unacademic,
and just lawyers!"
IDK: "Thought you said
we were a bunch of religious hicks."
EK: "That too.
And stupid and uneducated."
IDK: "Not!
We've got degrees, PhDs in science and everything."
EK: "Yours don't
count. Spurious, fraudulent, insulting!
Impudent, uppity -- stupid, rural, red-necked, uncouth,
unsophisticated, fraudulent, spurious – and bigoted, biased, and
religious and religious and biased and bigoted, same thing – and
devious, sneaky, sleazy, unconstitutional, boat-rockers, troublemakers.
Activists!
EK: "Activists?
Ouch, that hurts!"
EK, without missing a
beat: "…religious, outmoded, retarded, mindless, brainless, primitive,
prehistoric. And unscientific.
And doctrinaire! And
disingenuous! So there!"
Teacher, ringing the
bell: "Recess over, children. Time for
sensitivity class."
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