Elijah's little repartee to the prophets of Baal is teeming with sarcasm.("Where is your god? perhaps he is asleep, or maybe walking around?" Theonly thing missing is a punctuating rim-shot) As is Isaiah's bit about how the idolaters take a piece of wood, cut it in half and call one half of it "God" while they heat their house with the other half of "God."