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Were their congregations outdoors, under the solemn
Banyan trees?
Did their pastors make impassioned pleas to each
individual listener’s more charitable instincts (to drop donations in the
collection basket)?
What, exactly, did the dinosaurs believe?
Were the dinosaur
popes and Martin Luthers bucking the system of thought and control?
Did dinosaur fortune
tellers sense deeply and did their prophets foresee the future? Like the family
on the beach before a tsunami, did they notice with a small part of themselves smaller,
flying dinosaurs leaving in the moments before an asteroid came roiling down? Will
we notice the harbingers of our own ceasing?
Culturally? Nationally? Personally?
In the tens of
millions of years that dinosaurs spread out to cover their planet with their
lives, did they evolve more practically? Pragmatically? Cynically? —than we
have so far managed to become?
Were dinosaurs Taoists?
Did they develop nature religions? Did they practice Yoga and insight
meditation? Did they chant sutras and pay for a personal mantra? In what form were
their collection baskets woven? A ceremonial half-egg? We believe they were
illiterate because none of their books or bibles survived the sweeping
cataclysm that ushered in their destruction. Their obliging ending was the
harbinger of our own salvation from marginalized extinction.
What did the dinosaurs
tell their children about God? What did their god look like? Isn’t that
obvious? Did their Jesus walk on
water or fly with wings?
