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Voices: Hot cross bun-flavoured cheese is not an ‘insult to Christianity’

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I think the thing that really turned me off religion growing up was the fact that it all seemed so sombre. I went to a CofE school – not because we were , that was just the closest one to my house – and I remember having to go to the church next door and sit in front of this huge statue of during events like the harvest festival. He always looked so sad (which, on reflection, made a lot of sense), and I always

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