Cosby brings his comedic touch to the Bible

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But he has little patience for people like the man he recently met on the streets of Syracuse, N.Y., who offered Cosby a miniature Bible and repeatedly asked him, "Do you know that Christ loves you?" after the comedian had already assured him he did.

"It seems that you are more interested in conquering someone, and if you would read more about Jesus as he walked and talked and what he represented, you’ll find that he is not what you are," Cosby told the man. "That’s, as far as I’m concerned, not a model for the way Christ behaved."

He politely declined that man’s Bible.

Then again, he had eight already.

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