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Article: Fun with fundamentalists. (Column)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 13, 1993
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THE FUNDAMENTALIST joke contest, announced in the August 11-18 issue, gave no deadline, so entries keep trickling in, and maybe a really good one will have come in since our staff was subjected to them a few weeks ago.
That sentence implies that no really good one has appeared. But there are some woebegone "pretty good ones," or just enough above average, as they say in Lake Wobegon, to merit mention.
First, let me explain the ground rules. We wanted no cruel jokes, not being in a bashing mood; nor liberal-condescension jokes, feeling insufficiently superior or sufficiently unsuperior to fundamentalists to take that route. We had low expectations. Few ...