It all began on Father's Day. In the red corner was Ricky Gervais - actor, comedian and atheist. In the blue corner was God. Or at least His representative on Twitter, @TheTweetOfGod.
Gervais kicked things off with a question for the big guy:
Four minutes later, God tweeted:
As My own son, for Father's Day I bought Myself a necktie. And as My own father, I thanked Myself and silently felt disappointed yet again.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 15, 2014
And then (in a tweet since deleted):
To which Gervais replied:
Gervais's thoughts then turned to the World Cup. Specifically, England's defeat to Italy on Saturday night:
Which drew this response from His Almighty (which has also since been deleted. Surely He's not embarrassed about the exchange?!):
And then Gervais moved on to music. Specifically, the music of Kiss:
Over to you, God:
Gervais posed one more question:
But He fell silent.
Still, Gervais was delighted with the exchange:
And in one final response to this tweet....
...even appeared converted:
Well, possibly.
(Via Mobilemag.com)