Florida substitute teacher performs magic trick making a toothpick disappear. Gets accused of wizardry.
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I say we hold him underwater and if he drowns, he's innocent!
This is so incredible it just has to be true, but I still wonder. How can someone that stupid live? They must have a tape recorder or such to remind them to breath.
Leighdf, relax. It was hyperbole. Like the comment on counterfeiting, the discrimination comment was meant to illustrate how crazy the whole thing *could* get. It was also politically correct sarcasm to correct them for calling him a wizard, as no one, outside of those who play roleplaying games, uses that term anymore. More correctly he would be a magician.
But the sheer fact that someone *in the school system* could confuse a magic trick with "real" magic (aka wizardry, which no one can prove exists in the first place) tells me that a) the whole chain of people who supported the dismissal haven't made it out of the Dark Ages, b) I am lucky my children don't attend school in Florida, and c) they are gullible as all get out and I can make a lot of money selling them potato chips with images of Mary and Jesus!
Oh, and as a Wiccan, I can assure you that the only time I've ever heard someone complain about religion in the workplace or classroom (prayer time, Bibles on teachers' desks, taking religious holidays off, and religious propaganda on the walls) was when it WASN'T Christian-oriented. Complain about any of it and you usually get responses like "Oh, it's nothing", "If you don't like it, don't look at it", "No one else complains", and "Why are you complaining? Do you have a problem accepting Christ as your Savior?" Those were the comments I got in liberal California. I've learned to keep quiet unless someone starts outright prosyletizing and won't take "no thank you" for an answer. Especially in Bible-belt North Carolina!
If you think I'm wrong, try taking Halloween off work as a religious holiday and see what reaction you get.