The Religion of the Twenty-First Century

I don't know whether you have come across this news item, it is more than a week old. It is a delightful spoof. I think many have literally read this article and have made their comments, wherever the article has been posted. I have enjoyed those comments, and have had considerable trouble deciding whether I am meant to read them literally or not.

I found this news and the image in The Onion issue of 5.9.08.

It brings to light the miraculous image of Charles Darwin that had manifested itself on a concrete wall in Dayton, a small town in Tennessee. And it reports that devoted evolutionists are flocking to see the Darwin-like stain on the wall, and to to lay wreaths of flowers, light devotional candles, read aloud from Darwin's works, and otherwise pay homage to the mysterious blue-green image.

There are also entertaining quotes capped with, ""It's a stain on a wall, and nothing more," said the Rev. Clement McCoy, a professor at Oral Roberts University and prominent opponent of evolutionary theory. "Anything else is the delusional fantasy of a fanatical evolutionist mindset that sees only what it wishes to see in the hopes of validating a baseless, illogical belief system..."

Please read the article in its entirety. I don't want to fill this space with words copied and reformulated in a different order.