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AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) - God is taking calls.

Dutch artist Johan van der Dong has set up a local telephone number in the Netherlands, where he urges people to leave messages for God on his answering machine.

Van der Dong said he set up the number to give people an opportunity to take pause and contemplate life.

"Like praying, leaving a voicemail message is a way to organize your thoughts," he said. "It's a perfect combination for some contemplation."

Callers dialing 06-4424-4901 (or +316-4424-4901 if calling from outside the Netherlands) from March 7 will hear.

"Hi, you are speaking to God. I'm not in right now so leave a message after the beep."

(Reporting by Elke Bun, editing by Paul Casciato)

Just for fun, leave your message for God here.

Here's mine:
Hello God, you know who this is.
This is an emergency. Can you please turn your attention toward this planet and do something about the things we are doing to it? Particularly all this terrorism in your name?
It would actually be nice if you could make a visit down here - to resolve all debates about your existence or otherwise, your name and if you actually said all those things floating under your name.
You can reach me on my email or better still,leave a comment on my blog!