A Testimony to Natural Selection

O Come and let them them worship me,
Let them bow down with all...
And on their knees let them in fear,
Before me plea and crawl!

They believe me to be in place of God,
And so they pay me their tithes,
A hard taskmaster I'm to them,
And abuse them all of their lives!

People cope with irrational behavior by attempting to placate it, just as birds at the airport are at first frightened by the noise, but later become accustomed to it and nest there.

Flashes of anger give an evolutionary advantage of survival through natural selection, throwing off potential predators.

Just as a wolf guarding pups may face down a bear, so a small, petty leader of an obscure cult may be able to overcome seemingly overwhelming odds faced with what looks to be certain extinction.

Narcissism gives pathetic small men who have nothing in particular to recommend them the power to appear "bigger than life".

And so it is that cult leaders deny evolution while relying on its power of natural selection.