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The story so far…<\/p>\n
Ten years ago, a gigantic, male, comatose form, two miles long and humanoid, appeared off the coast of Africa. The Vatican hired a supertanker to haul God\u2019s body north and preserve it in an iceberg. Six years went by, and then an earthquake knocked the body loose, and so the Pope was forced to go public, after which the American Baptist Confederation bought the Corpus Dei for eighty million dollars and made it the centerpiece of their Orlando theme park. …<\/p>\n
Once it became clear that God wasn’t brain-dead, a Pennsylvania judge names Martin Candle convinced the World Court to impound the body and try it for crimes against humanity. …<\/p>\n
Candle lost his case, went berserk, and destroyed the body’s life-support system. So now God was completely<\/em> dead, but the Baptists wanted Him back anyway\u2014He would probably still draw crowds\u2014which meant another towing operation, west across the North Sea, through the English Channel, and over the Atlantic. …<\/p>\n
The mission ended abruptly. No sooner had the flotilla passed through the Strait of Dover than something extraordinary occurred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That extraordinary happening turns out to be the piece by piece magical\u00a0disembowelment of the Corpus Dei, which gives up its organs one by one, leaving nothing but bones.<\/p>\n
“Ultimate reliquary? I don\u2019t get it What\u2019re they putting in there, the bones of God?”
\n“The bones of God.”
\n“What?”
\n“God\u2019s bones.”
\n“What?”
\n“He\u2019s dead.”
\n“I know. Nietzsche told me.”
\n“This isn\u2019t philosophy, Gerard. It\u2019s life. God died. Only the bones remain.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n