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From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal<\/a>. You can insert many other remakes and make the same point. Although the fact that some of us have the luxury of asking why a benevolent God would allow bad movies, rather than why we have not had any food for a week, itself raises the problem of evil.<\/p>\n

Be sure to click through<\/a> and read the red button punchline on this one.<\/p>\n

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