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Bedazzled has quite funny lines re: the devil, God, and religion in general. Example (the devil bemoans his help): "What terrible sins I have working for me. I suppose it's the wages."

I suspect that Bedazzled influenced Good Omens, but possibly it's just that a satirical British sensibility underlies them both.

In other God news, Paul Wright considers a balancing act between humanism and Christianity: "But after reading the book one feels like telling him, as one sometimes has to do to friends who lose someone, that God's not coming back and he should just move on."

Less than a week till Leonard returns for …

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