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\"\"<\/a>The Daily Telegraph reports that the atheists have now raised enough cash to buy their own messages on London busses.<\/p>\n

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This seems very appropriate to me. You wait and wait for a bus, and soon you start thinking there is no such thing as a bus. People have told you there are these wonderful things called busses that whisk you off to the land of your dreams, but they are all deluded, sad people who have been brainwashed.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I have visions of the Almighty\u2013 in long shabby robes and a long shaggy beard roaming the streets of London with a sandwich board saying, \u201cThere\u2019s probably no bus, now stop worrying and enjoy yourself.\u201d<\/div>\n

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The Daily Telegraph reports that the atheists have now raised enough cash to buy their own messages on London busses. This seems very appropriate to me. You wait and wait for a bus, and soon you start thinking there is no such thing as a bus. 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