The heretic /

The Heretic began with a rhetorical question the author posed to himself for a comedy show: "If there is a God, why would He create us? If He's perfect, all knowing, there's nothing he can gain from us. He must have been so incredibly bored and lonely, that He created us for his own e...

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Main Author: Murphy, John, 1964-
Corporate Author: Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (Brown University) Plays, 2001-2025
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : Talonbooks, c2008
Vancouver : ©2008
Vancouver, B.C. : c2008
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