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42 Spreading the Word If the gods were desperate for converts, religion would work like the feeling that shivers from your stomach up the front of your spine, then flares at the base of your skull when you’ve taken as many pulls as you can from a vodka jug before you need to stop and breathe. Communion would feel like that. First-timers would become believers, and the faithful would keep coming back, thinking I would feel this way forever if I could get just a little more. ...

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