Meerkat: Heresy; Elephant Shrew: Orthodox

Daily Inquisition: The Animals

Statement of the Grand Inquisitor: A child believes in many creatures unworthy of its faith, like the Komodo Dragon, revealed on mature inspection to be a mere hypertrophied alligator lizard which kills with its Petri-dish saliva. At last the animist’s thwarted crush homes in on the first perky quasi-biped it can find on the Discovery Channel. Hence the Penguin Cult now in obscene fervor, and the overexposed Meekrat Cult. Those Kalahari sentry-weasels are the false deities of many a suburban brat.

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