DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Republican presidential
    candidate Mike Huckabee, a Southern Baptist
    preacher who has surged in Iowa with evangelical
    Christian support, bristled Tuesday when asked if
    creationism should be taught in public schools.
    Huckabee -- who raised his hand at a debate last
    May when asked which candidates disbelieved the
    theory of evolution -- asked this time why there
    is such a fascination with his beliefs.

Maybe because if he believes God has told him he
should be the instrument to bring about The End of
The World ... maybe we might want to know that...?

    ''I believe God created the heavens and the
    Earth,'' ''I wasn't there when he did it, so how
    he did it, I don't know,'' Huckabee said. But he
    expressed frustration that he is asked about it so
    often, arguing with the questioner that it
    ultimately doesn't matter what his personal views
    are.

I wish somebody might ask Hucklebuck whether
he believes in Leprechauns. And if he doesn't,
could he then explain why he believes in some
supernatural creatures and not in others... because
this has always baffled me: It seems to me that if I
believed in any supernatural creatures I would
believe in them all. After all, "One magical rabbit is
just as good as every other magical rabbit." And,
certainly a lot many more people have seen and
talked with leprechauns than with gods!

  About the only people who still talk with God
  these days are those preachers who say things
  like, "Me and God were in the Jacuzzi the other
  day and He said to me: 'Tell my people to give you
  all their money so you can build My House... where
  in I will dwell when I return to earth. And,
  meanwhile, of course, you can live in there until
  I return and have the use on my BMW and shit--"

Now, why anyone would stop at believing in just some
magical creatures and not in as many as are imagined
is a profound mystery to me. There are photographs
of pixies, millions have been bitten by werewolves
AND vampires, thousands of Irishmen drink with their
Leprechauns in pubs every day, so why this refusal
to go all the way, baby? Strange, very strange.

S D Rodrian
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