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You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.

Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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