"The Greatest Magician"
trick #254
Once upon a time there was a magician named God. God knew how to do card tricks and make bushes burn spontaneously. God was such a good magician that he was always invisible. ALWAYS. But his magic tricks were so great and his deep voice so resounding and authoritative that no one ever dared deny his existence.
One day, Bill, a child of nine, was at the Orpheum Theatre with his mother to see the famed magician, David Copperfield. David Copperfield was astounding. His magic was spectacular. He walked through an iron wall! Bill and his mother were duly impressed.
When the show was over, Bill and his mother walked out onto the sidewalk. Suddenly, Bill noticed the sun and the clouds. Across the street was a park. The trees were beautiful.
“Mommy,” Bill exclaimed, “Look at all this beauty! God is the greatest magician of them all!”
As Billy said this, an atheist walked by, pushing along Stephen Hawking in a wheelchair.
“It’s science, you sanctimonious little Bible thumper!” yelled the atheist.
Stephen Hawking shook his head up and down in emphatic agreement, drool flying everywhere.
Suddenly Bill looked up into the sky, his mother pointed and screamed, and a dark cloud parted as a lightning bolt jolted down from the sky frying the atheist and Stephen Hawking into a crisp, smoldering ash.
Bill, proud as a peacock, looked up at his mother with a shit-eating grin.
“The greatest magician of them all,” he gloated, and they walked away, hand in hand.
This story was written by Mel Gibson.
THE END
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