Let's not let people divide the world into the creatives and the non-creatives, like it's some God-given thing.

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Six years ago, Palin left Assembly of God to join the non-denominational Wasilla Bible Church.

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Outside the building we're staying in, the non-stop, looped recordings of "God is great" continue to sing plaintively across the city from half a dozen mosques.

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Diderot and Bertrand Russell, two famous earlier non-believers, would also have been puzzled by what has happened to God at the hands of the western intelligentsia.

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