The Mathematics of God.

In Texas—land of longhorn cattle and slaughterhouses—the theological stakes can run surprisingly high.

Sometimes they rise over a pulpit. Sometimes over a card table.

On this particular evening, a number of men discovered that when the cards are dealt and the talk turns to God, the stakes have a way of climbing all on their own:

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After listening to their confident arguments for a while, Vito had enough:

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Fresh from a lucky run at pachinko, a wandering bodhisattva sits down—and teaches the table a lesson in numbers.

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