Here's a lovely new item from Pat Condell entitled "Hook, Line and Rapture":
My favorite bit involves Pat talking to God in a dream about a bible: "I said 'What bible? That's just a blank sheet of paper.' and he said 'Yeah, this is the non-fiction version'".
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