Who Needs Science Anyway

Among the more arduous burdens involved in accepting Jesus as one's personal Saviour is, of course, the need for sufficient humility to correct Him where He went wrong. Few of the faithful have ever let themselves be troubled by the joke about selling all they have and giving to the poor, let alone by that unholy gaffe about welcoming strangers; but the Christian state of Florida has incurred a substantial moral cost through its relaxed attitude to the typographical error about loving one's enemies and responding to persecution with exceeding gladness. Rather than rejoicing at its heavenly reward, the state's fish and wildlife conservation commission sacked a biologist over a social media repost after the Deity's mysterious oversight in the shooting of Charles James Kirk. The state has now agreed to settle the resulting lawsuit for just under half a million dollars, in return for the plaintiff's pledge not to darken the agency's payroll again. Presumably this is not too great a sacrifice on the scientist's part, since the agency will doubtless be winding down anyway in order to free up state funds for the study of UFOs and the Ten Commandments.