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It seemed appropriate to round up some of the tributes to Leonard Nimoy which have had religious elements to them.\u00a0They are all in a similar vein, although The Onion\u2019s<\/a> is the most distinctive of them, followed by David Hayward\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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