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God's Puppet.(Doug Nearpass' DigDag)(Brief Article)(Interview)
If God usually speaks through a medium, why shouldn't the rest of us? Doug Nearpass, an evangelical Christian and spare-time ventriloquist from New Jersey, uses his dummy, DigDag, to preach the Lord's word. At the sixth annual convention of "Christian ventriloquists" in Illinois, PERI sat down with DigDag and his straight man.
PERI: You're a puppet. Do people take you seriously?
DIGDAG: Absolutely. I converse directly with people and they forget [I'm] a puppet.
Whose word are you spreading--God's or Doug's?
DIGDAG: Usually, Uncle Doug, he starts with a Bible verse, and I ask him questions. I don't think we're really talking about Uncle Doug's words. He's not that smart.
Is DigDag family?
DOUG: I wouldn't [call him] a child, but when I put him away for a while after my divorce, my daughters missed him. He was so ...
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...and never forgotten by mom, dad, Pamela, Roy, Lynette, Andrew and Emily and always in the thoughts of aunt Audrey and uncle Doug". A gift of pounds 15 also comes from Mrs M. Martin "in memory of my dear husband Bill, September 16, 1970. Lovingly...
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