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Spiritual exploration: Is there a reason one would not use a game show as a way to choose a religious path? Hard to believe.

It may come as a comfort, if you are poised on the edge of despair about the possibility of a T.J. Hooker remake, to consider that appalling mass-entertainment ideas are apparently something that unites people around the world. Unites them in the spirit of ... you know, despair.

It is in this spirit that I pass along the news that Turkey will soon have a game show that will take 10 atheists and hook them up with four spiritual guides — a monk, a priest, a rabbi, and an imam — who will try to convert them.