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Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
N. T. Wright
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N. T. Wright
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 1
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Bishop Of Durham
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Nicholas Thomas Wright
Tom Wright
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