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"Human cloning would not lead to identical souls, because only God can create a soul," a panel set up by Pope John Paul has concluded. They also took care of a couple other things that were burning issues: Apparently, Trix are indeed for kids.

Janeane Garofalo

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Garofalo riffs on a Vatican bioethics stance—attributed here to a panel convened under Pope John Paul II—that cloning cannot replicate a person’s soul. She juxtaposes that weighty theological claim with a deliberately trivial “finding” about a children’s cereal slogan (“Trix are for kids”), using incongruity to satirize institutional pronouncements and the way authoritative bodies can appear to arbitrate both profound and absurd questions. The joke also plays on the cultural anxiety around cloning in the late-1990s/early-2000s, framing religious certainty about metaphysics as both definitive and, in comedic framing, oddly bureaucratic.

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