Tuesday October 13, 1998

NOBEL PRIZE AWARDED TO BLASPHEMER

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct 13 (LSN) - On October 8, Jose Saramago of Portugal was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Religion News Today reports that the controversial novelist, playwright and poet produced a blasphemous play depicting a purely human Jesus used by a cynical God to create a religion of pain, death and intolerance. In the play "Jesus" has sex with Mary Magdalene. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano described the choice of Saramago as "yet another ideologically slanted award."

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