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Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.

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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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