Free The Temple by Brian Smith Page B

together with
people?”
    “What utter nonsense, Sycko.
Didn’t I just explain to you how God made the world 6137 years ago?
How could the world be millions of years old? It’s just another lie
you were told at school. It’s perfectly obvious that dinosaurs and
humans were created at the same time. Dinosaurs died out some time
after that as have many other creatures since then, that’s all. And
look at the next painting. Here you can see the very first humans
receiving the first copy of The Holy Dryvel from God Himself. And
look at the background. What can you see there?”
    “A dinosaur.”
    “Exactly, a dinosaur. What more
proof could you want that humans and dinosaurs coexisted in early
times. And there in the next glass case is the very same copy of
The Holy Dryvel that God once gave to us humans.”
    Sycko peered into the glass
case. A thick leather bound book lay there with a black cover and
gilded words on it. The words said: The Holy Dryvel. Sycko felt
overawed at the sight of the first copy of the holy book that had
come from the very hands of the Lord Himself.
    They walked on and came to the
large model of an open house. A woman was standing in the kitchen
and a stork sat perched on the chimney and dropped a baby down the
chimney. Sycko peered at the model with curiosity. “Is that where
babies come from?” he said at last. “I thought women gave birth
to…”
    “Tut, tut,” Jeremiah interrupted
him. “More nonsense your head was filled with. A careful reading of
The Holy Dryvel will prove with absolute certainty and without a
doubt that the stork theory is the only correct explanation for the
appearance of babies. How anyone could ever have associated God’s
creation with such a messy and bloody event that birth would be is
beyond me. Whatever next? Maybe someone will come along that the
Earth is round or some such preposterous nonsense!”
    “Isn’t it?”
    Jeremiah looked irritated.
“Isn’t it what?”
    “I mean, isn’t the Earth round?
My dad always had a globe at home and that was round.”
    “No, no, no,” Jeremiah said with
vehemence. “This is another vile lie that may have arisen due to a
careless reading of the text. The Holy Dryvel states quite clearly
that the Earth is a disc. A disc is obviously flat and circular. It
is not round like a ball. This is a fact that has been proven time
and again by Dryvellist scientists. Why myths about the Earth being
round are still believed by some people in our day and age is
simply beyond me.”
    Ashamed at his own ignorance
Sycko said nothing for a while and followed Jeremiah in silence. He
viewed numerous other exhibits that proved the creation of the
world by God or that were holy relics. Then they came to the
section entitled ‘Disbelief’.
    “Now pay good attention, Sycko.
This last part of the museum may shock you, but it’s all for the
best. Trust me when I tell you that not accepting Dryvellism and
believing all it stands for is the worst thing any human could do
to himself. Look and take heed!”
    Sycko swallowed hard and stepped
to the first exhibit. It was the painting of an area enclosed by
barbed wire and the ground was strewn with corpses. Below the
picture it said: These people were murdered because the murderers
did not believe in Dryvellism.
    Next there was a model of the
Titanic with panic stricken passengers jumping into the freezing
water. A sign next to it read: This ship sank because there were no
Dryvellers on board.
    Then Sycko saw some life size
models of people who perished in the ancient city of Pompey. The
sign read: These people were evidently not Dryvellers as God
permitted them to die in a volcanic eruption.
    Sycko looked at exhibit after
exhibit showing the horrible consequences of not being a Dryveller
until he came to the last painting. It showed the disc of the Earth
and deep down below raging fires with people in them screaming in
agony. The inscription was:
    The fate of those who