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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

CHAPTER 15
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'They say as all diseases is caused by little insects.

If Gord 'adn't made no cancer germs or consumption microbes there wouldn't be no cancer or consumption.' 'That's one of the proofs that there ISN'T an individual God,' said Owen.

'If we were to believe that the universe and everything that lives was deliberately designed and created by God, then we must also believe that He made his disease germs you are speaking of for the purpose of torturing His other creatures.' 'You can't tell me a bloody yarn like that,' interposed Crass, roughly.
'There's a Ruler over us, mate, and so you're likely to find out.' 'If Gord didn't create the world, 'ow did it come 'ere ?' demanded Slyme.
'I know no more about that than you do,' replied Owen.

'That is--I know nothing.

The only difference between us is that you THINK you know.


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