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I would like Brian Blessed to do all readings in church tbh.
He’d actually be great doing a recording of some of Paul’s angry letters- ‘you FOOLISH Galatians’.
There’s a less toxic topic for you all to discuss- which celeb would you have reading a particular book of the Bible and why?
I would like Christopher Biggins to read out the Song of Songs for obvious reasons.
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Oh my goodness the reconstructions of the faces of Roman emperors are *gold*
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I'm sorry but every single person involved on both sides of the Brexit thing looks like the secondary, slightly rubbish antagonist from an unmade Disney film.
This bloke tried to turn a decrepit but homely tenement into apartments only to be foiled by a group of plucky dormice in an unmade film of 1987.
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