Sometimes, I don't know,
I guess I just wonder when it all starts to make sense, you know?
Well, I guess there comes a point, you see, when you reach a certain age and you're in Jersey,or someplace just like it,and...you stop trying to figure it all out.
You just...are glad for what you have.
Oh.
And that...that just, like, happens for everyone?
Yeah. Pretty much.
But you let me know if it turns out different for you.
Escutem-me, meus irmãos!
Quando me alistei, ouvi o que disse o General De Gaulle.
Ele disse que a França lutava pela liberdade no mundo.
Pensei que a guerra nos daria os direitos dos nossos irmãos de armas franceses.
Estamos todos a lutar contra Hitler.
Pela liberdade, a igualdade e a fraternidade.
Está na hora de nos darem alguma dessa liberdade,dessa igualdade e, acima de tudo, dessa fraternidade!
Estamos a mudar o destino da França.
As coisas também têm que mudar para nós!
We're not evil sinners or perfect knockoffs of God.
We let the world tell us whether we're saints or sex addicts...sane or insane...heroes or victims...whether we're good mothers or loving sons.
But we can decide for ourselves.
The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses,the world actually could come to an end.
The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live.
The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key decisions made by religious people,by irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass,but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking.
It's nothing to brag about.
And those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are our intellectual slaveholders,keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
Most people would think it's wonderful when someone says,"I'm willing, Lord.I'll do whatever You want me to do. "
Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us,that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions,- limitations and agendas.
And anyone who tells you they know,they just know what happens when you die,I promise you, you don't.
How can I be so sure?
Because I don't know,and you do not possess mental powers that I do not.
The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion,but doubt. Doubt is humble,and that's what man needs to be,considering that human history is just a litany of getting shit dead wrong.
This is why rational people,anti-religionists,must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves.
And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price.
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny,homophobia, violence and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.
To do otherwise is to be an enabler,a Mafia wife,with the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travelers.
If the world does come to an end here or wherever,or if it limps into the future,decimated by the effects of a religion-inspired nuclear terrorism,let's remember what the real problem was:
That we learned how to precipitate mass death before we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it.
That's it. Grow up or die.
OK, so it's the 21st century.A 15-year-old using a toothbrush to masturbate about her best friend really shouldn't be that big a deal.
-I want to be a superstar.
- Like who?
- Nicole Kidman.
-She gets $20 million for a movie.I wouldn't mind being her either.
-I want to be an entrepreneur.
-What kind of business?
-Any kind, as long as it's really big.Big business always pays out.
-Why not?
-I want to be a poor person.
Poor!Hahaha!
My dad says if you have integrity......don't bullshit, don't fight,
and study really hard......then people will respect you even if you're poor.
...you didn't claim to be the son of god?
Began as a schoolhouse and ended as a temple.
I said I had a master that was greater than myself.
I never said he was my father. I wanted to teach what I learned.
I never claimed to be king of the jews,
I never walked on water, I never raised the dead.
I never spoke of divine except in the sense of human goodness on earth.
You weren't Jesus.Were you?
This has gone far enough.These people are very upset.
The time has come when you must admit this is a hoax...A lie.
I ask you now...I demand it that you tell these people the truth.
Give them closure.
...the philosophical teachings of jesus are buddhism
with a hebrew accent, kindness, tolerance, brotherhood, love, a ruthless realism acknowledging that life is as it is here on earth, here and now.
The kingdom of god, meaning goodness, is right here, where it should be.
"I am what I am becoming."
That's what the buddha brought in.
And that's what I taught.
But a talking snake make a lady eat an apple, so we're screwed.
Heaven and hell were peddled so priests could rule through seduction and terror, save our souls that we never lost in the first place.
It's been said that buddha and jesus
would laugh or cry if they'd known what was done in their name.
... and if there is a creator, he'd probably feel the same way.
I see ceremony, ritual, processions, genuflecting,
moaning, intoning, venerating cookies and wine, and I think...
It's not what I had in mind.