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Letter from God to the editor: P.P. McGuinness v The Almighty.(Religion)

Publication: Quadrant
Publication Date: 01-APR-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Dear Paddy,

I see that you have been criticising Me again (Quadrant, March, and the Australian, 24-25 February). The holy scriptures say I am not mocked, but I am sending you this rejoinder for publication (I hope) in your splendid journal.

I usually keep in touch with the world the...

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...through Church. But I have from time to time spoken through prophets, peasants, poets, composers, scientists, even film-makers. I rarely use journalists. I once used a donkey.

I recently hurled a small thunderbolt at Dr Richard Dawkins' best-seller, The God Delusion. The London Sunday Times reported it at Christmas. My amanuensis was John Cornwell. He once wrote a foolish book about one of My representatives. He called it Hitler's Pope. But he is a good writer and came highly recommended.

For this letter to Quadrant, I am using Peter Coleman as an amanuensis. He is no John Cornwell, but he is doing his best.

I write to you the more readily because one of your editorial innovations has been to open Quadrant's pages to Christian argument. Even Quadrant's famous founding editor, Jim McAuley, did not do that. He was a recent convert to My cause and he did not want even to seem to be using the magazine for propaganda. He also knew that many, perhaps most, of his readers were--not to put too fine a point on it--atheists. He did not want to scare or enrage them by telling them...

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