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Oh, so you think that my friends were worried about how conservative fundamentalists would react to that scene? Mmmm, maybe? I mean, I think they're both smart enough to realize that a fundie would have probably bailed in the opening credits when, as you say, it's clear God is being voiced by a woman. So, I don't know. That could be it, though.

I will say I thought long and hard about including Jesus in my own novels about angels. There was, in one draft of Apocalypse Array, a moment when someone asked Morningstar/Satan about Jesus and he says, "Who?" the other person says "Isa? Yeshu'a? You know the guy that died on the cross in Golgotha?" and Morningstar is like, "You're going to have to be more specific, the Romans really liked crucifying people." Because, apparently, historically, in that particuar region, they really did.

I think I pulled it (though it might still be there, like Good Omens, I figured if a person got this far in the series they were already not the sort of person who would suddenly be shocked at my blasphemy,) because I was thinking "best just to leave Jesus out of this entirely."