Penn & Teller: Bull! 3x5

1. Hi, I'm Penn Jillette.

2. This is my partner, Teller.

3. We received this, letter from a viewer, and it really.

4. It really moved us.

5. We wanted to share it with our only friend. You,

6. dear Penn and Teller.

7. So far, so good.

8. Fuck you.

9. You see, I.

10. I could feel it turning right there.

11. You've taken away my self-righteous joy of recycling the calm

12. I received from Feng Shuang.

13. And now that I know reflexology is bullshit.

14. My sciatica is acting up again.

15. Are you trying to ruin everything that's good in this world?

16. Have you no decency?

17. What's next?

18. You're gonna dig up shit and tell us.

19. Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi and the Dalai Lama are assholes.

20. Fuck you.

21. Sincerely, Michael Goodall.

22. Well, thanks for writing, Michael.

23. Good thinking.

24. We get kind of all caught up in the American bullshit.

25. We sometimes forget there's a whole wide world full of bullshit out there.

26. It's time we get off our American asses and search for some bullshit overseas.

27. Hey, we can smell it from here.

28. So we checked.

29. And. Yep, when it comes to Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi and the Dalai Lama,

30. there really is a lot of bullshit.

31. I sure hope hell is bullshit too, because if not,

32. we are going there for this one.

33. I find this.

34. Okay, okay.

35. Okay okay

36. okay. I.

37. Hope. You.

38. See? You.

39. Is blessed by God.

40. And he's a very giving person.

41. Very caring. He loves children.

42. He's very generous.

43. I mean, he just never.

44. I mean, he always amazes me.

45. No, she's not talking about Gandhi, the Dalai Lama or Mother Teresa.

46. These women have gathered on this night to worship yet another savior.

47. But can you guess?

48. Who are you?

49. Cares for everybody.

50. And he makes you feel important as well.

51. All the dreams that we want to happen.

52. He's made them happen.

53. Well, that is a really.

54. It's just incredible what he's done to bring us all together.

55. I think if it was up to him, he would be out there with us.

56. How many people can touch lives like that?

57. We'll check back with these ladies in a bit.

58. It's the same old story.

59. Almost every successful religion

60. is built on some guy or gal who is holier than thou.

61. For the best recent example.

62. Look no further than this woman, Mother Teresa,

63. who is more popular today than she was before her death in 1997.

64. This has been lost in the Vatican,

65. which has her book To the Express train to sainthood.

66. They're not stupid.

67. Well, they're not that kind of stupid.

68. Maybe it's just us, but it sure seems like anyone

69. who has an aura of holier than thou is usually pretty often.

70. Kind of always not.

71. We're really sure that there's a lot of bullshit involved with Mother Teresa,

72. and if we're wrong, it's pretty clear God is going to strike, is dead.

73. We're betting that's bullshit, too.

74. So to make it easier for God, we're wearing the lightning rods on our heads.

75. Come on, God, we're right here.

76. Any time, any place.

77. Mother Teresa. Bullshit.

78. Here's a man who was such an authority on holiness.

79. He once tried to prevent Penn and Teller from performing at the Super Bowl.

80. And now we happily let him on our TV show.

81. Maybe we are holier than thou, asshole.

82. And I've never seen any single person as revered as Mother Teresa.

83. From people all over the world from different civilizations, religions,

84. and demographic groups.

85. I'm Bill Donahue, and I'm

86. the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

87. Bill likes to point out mother Teresa's message of peace and love.

88. We should have more people like as a role model.

89. Unfortunately we don't. One man's opinion.

90. Here's another.

91. I would just climb Mother Teresa as a fraud.

92. A fanatic and a fundamentalist.

93. I'm Christopher Hitchens, and I'm the author of a book

94. called The Missionary Position, which investigates Mother Teresa.

95. Christopher Hitchens is to the Catholic Church and Mother Teresa.

96. What Michael Moore is to a ham sandwich.

97. Relentless, unstoppable and without fear.

98. We love. Hitchens.

99. Everything everybody thinks they know about is false.

100. Not just most of the things.

101. All the things.

102. It must be the most single, successful emotional con job of the 20th century.

103. She was corrupt, nasty, cynical and cruel.

104. Mother Teresa was known for her home for the dying in Calcutta, India.

105. It sure ain't a hospital.

106. We don't. Doctors saving lives.

107. This is just a place for victims to suffer and die by the rules

108. of the Catholic Church.

109. You went to Calcutta.

110. You had a 50% chance of running into her.

111. Maybe much more likely you'd find her with Nancy Reagan

112. or Princess Diana off in some foreign capital

113. of beating the bushes and posing for pictures.

114. Or even worse than that, with real crooks and exploiters

115. and robbers of the poor such as the Duvalier family in Haiti.

116. Wait up the same Duvalier family that raped and pillage

117. the Haitian countryside, terrorizing everyone and their iron fisted rule.

118. Hard to believe, but all Mother Teresa, in this 1991

119. photo op with baby Doc's wife proclaims, devalues love.

120. The poor for the poor loved them.

121. And most outrageous of all, quote.

122. It was a beautiful lesson for me.

123. She did press some people who were wealthy to give money

124. so that she could use it in a way to help the poor,

125. and to set up the orphanages and the hospices.

126. Oh, she used the dough to help the very people from whom it was taken.

127. Well, no.

128. If there is a big program to ameliorate

129. Haiti run by her order, I've never heard of it. Yep.

130. According to some, she took the undisclosed amount and ran back to India.

131. The Haitians, you know, the ones who worked for the money

132. that had stolen from them by their government got diddly squat.

133. So how does the Catholic Church defend the spectacle of sleaze

134. as usual and bullshit?

135. The end always justifies the means.

136. Well, she's not endorsing them.

137. She's simply shaking hands.

138. I mean, quite frankly,

139. if you're going to take money from some people to give to the poor,

140. does it make any sense to take it from the poor?

141. Does it make any sense to take it from the middle class?

142. Wouldn't you take it from the rich?

143. I find myself rather astonished.

144. It's simply an excuse.

145. Excuse making for theft and for deceit.

146. It's softness on crime.

147. Mother tea also accepted over $1 million from Charles Keating, whose junk

148. bond debacle caused more than 21,000

149. old folks to lose their life savings.

150. When she got the money from Charles Keating,

151. he hadn't been indicted about anything.

152. He hadn't even been accused of anything. So what was she supposed to do?

153. The money was already spent

154. by the time that we found out that this guy was a crook.

155. So the Vatican couldn't write a check.

156. There's something asshole in that,

157. no matter what the evidence.

158. Fuckers like Bill Donahue see only the good in Mother Teresa.

159. For her work. She's won the Nobel Peace Prize.

160. She's won 124 different international prizes.

161. She's the most revered person amongst the people

162. in India, with the exception of Mahatma Gandhi.

163. We'll get back to Mother Teresa in a moment.

164. But, man, we're glad the fucker mentioned Gandhi.

165. Now, Gandhi did a lot of good for the world.

166. He used nonviolence to free his people from British colonial rule.

167. Gandhi was a good guy.

168. Our problem with Mahatma Gandhi isn't the Gandhi part.

169. That just means grocer.

170. It's the Mahatma part that bothers us.

171. Mahatma means sage or saint, which is how people think of them nowadays.

172. We're fine with sage.

173. He was a very wise man.

174. And sage is terrific. Rubbed on turkey.

175. But Saint same applies an information source beyond even Google.

176. I had a wonderful relationship

177. with him around Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.

178. Yep, we actually pestered Gandhi's grandson to answer our questions. It's

179. amazing when a couple of Emmy nominations and a ftdi tickler book can get you.

180. I think that he was a very simple, sincere person.

181. He was a very committed person.

182. He was a very humble person.

183. Sincere, committed, even humble.

184. We'll give you all that.

185. But Mahatma, this guy has got quite a different take.

186. Hey, what's the one of the bad guys in the second Indiana Jones movie?

187. Colonel J.B.

188. Singh, author of Gandhi Behind the Mask of Divinity.

189. Guess not.

190. Behind this image of Gandhi that we came to accept.

191. There's a lot more going on.

192. JB Singh has been studying Gandhi for 21 years.

193. A former follower in his younger

194. days, Singh won his own way after uncovering some kind of a Mahatma.

195. Facts about the bald and bespectacled one.

196. Singh focuses on Gandhi's early years in South Africa,

197. where he wore this really bitchin doo and fought against discrimination.

198. Well, discrimination against Indians, not a native Africans.

199. Gandhi's

200. politics in South Africa was driven by race,

201. particularly a racial hatred of black people,

202. calling them curfews that were just niggers,

203. uncivilized, uneducated animals.

204. Now, before we rip Gandhi a new asshole for being racist and he was,

205. let us not get too fucking holier than thou.

206. Well, Gandhi was bad mouthing the African blacks.

207. Our U.S.

208. Supreme Court was backing segregation and the KKK were the heroes.

209. And the hit movie birth of a nation.

210. So sure as fuck.

211. We are not saying any of us Americans were holier than Gandhi.

212. But listen to what Gandhi said about blacks in Africa.

213. Now tell her, and I don't want to be on camera during this. Tell her.

214. Get our little Gandhi puppet.

215. The the cafe is solely a mission.

216. Is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with,

217. and then best his life in indolence and nakedness.

218. They are loafers, a species of humanity almost unknown.

219. Among the events.

220. Okay, so my bullshit Indian accent

221. is pretty fucking racist, but did you hear those words?

222. He's telling everyone.

223. No no no no.

224. Do not mistake the Indians for the niggers.

225. He did not want to be with them.

226. He did not like their food.

227. He did not like their behaviors.

228. He just had nothing to do with them.

229. But I was very careful

230. to make my own position very clear.

231. He sure did.

232. Gandhi started a newspaper, Indian Opinion, in which he laid out

233. his racial beliefs in four languages.

234. Gandhi had written at least 16 columns

235. in that newspaper inciting the Indians,

236. inciting the Indians to go after blacks.

237. I don't agree that grandfather was a racist.

238. You know, he was living in a different era

239. and different circumstances than we are living now.

240. That's true.

241. He was living in a time when racism was the norm.

242. So Gandhi was normal and pretty clearly not a saint.

243. If you happen to go to volume eight and nine of of collected works of Mahatma

244. Gandhi, you can read Gandhi's own writings about the racial hatred of black people.

245. Gandhi never claimed to be a saint.

246. He said he had all the weaknesses of an ordinary person and

247. one of the weaknesses was sexual sex.

248. Who's talking about sex?

249. But hey, if you want to go there.

250. Gandhi is sleeping naked with young girls.

251. Wait a minute.

252. He's sleeping naked with the girls.

253. And the girls are naked too.

254. He's sleeping naked with the girls.

255. And the girls are naked too. Cool.

256. Grandfather did indulge in this experiment to find out whether he had been able

257. to conquer his sexual, you know, weaknesses.

258. What he's doing is preserving his semen.

259. And according to the yoga doctrine, that gives him a spiritual power.

260. Sure. In one nasty case of blue balls.

261. But hold on.

262. There's more shit on Gandhi. Literally.

263. Sources say Gandhi was concerned about internal.

264. Cleanliness and routinely received.

265. Enemas and also performed enemas on young girls night.

266. That's wrong.

267. He never performed young animals on young girls.

268. Well, at least it wasn't standard operating procedure.

269. Giving enemas became a standard operating procedure for him.

270. Oh, the Holy Father will ask them to.

271. Sister, did you have a good bowel movement?

272. And of course, if sisters didn't have the

273. good bowel movement, the Holy Father would be ready there to

274. put it in the back and let them have the enema.

275. So early in the morning, the shit is all over.

276. Yep. Gandhi was a giver.

277. I believe in constructive criticism, but

278. raking up this kind of,

279. negativity there, it doesn't really make much sense to me.

280. Man, we're lucky he's into that nonviolence thing.

281. Back of the mysterious gathering.

282. The food was nice and hot, and the ladies were warming up.

283. He puts out that he's a Christian and he has certain things that he believes in.

284. I met him last March in a meet and greet,

285. and we weren't allowed to ask him questions.

286. He wasn't supposed to talk.

287. We like to identify with people

288. who are seen as incredibly moral, as incredibly powerful, incredibly righteous.

289. Tom Basinski, a social psychologist at the University of Colorado

290. at Colorado Springs.

291. They make us feel secure.

292. They exemplify our values.

293. They provide a shining example of what we think the world ought to be like.

294. He's involved in so many, so many charities and so many things for children.

295. I mean, it's it's a beautiful thing.

296. And, it just warms my heart.

297. Who the fuck are they talking about?

298. Sounds like a male motherfucking Theresa.

299. You know what?

300. Mother Theresa isn't even her real name.

301. That's her real name.

302. What's she hiding?

303. She never had kids. Her name is not Theresa.

304. So what's the deal with all the money?

305. Agnes.

306. Guten tag.

307. The bow hug. Mother Theresa.

308. Agnes. Gonzales. Boyardee. Oh, yeah.

309. On a world travel, she raised well over 50 million bucks by some account.

310. And yet, where did all of it go?

311. Well, as with most bullshit.

312. Follow the money.

313. Mother Teresa's money is mostly spent on religious activities and not on the poor.

314. Doctor Arup Chatterjee, author of Mother Teresa The Final Verdict.

315. According to this guy.

316. Mother Teresa built over 100 facilities around the world, all bearing her name

317. and that of her organization, missionaries of Charity.

318. Which is a lot better than the original name.

319. Nuns on the Dole.

320. If you look at the breakdown of our organization

321. throughout the world, you would find that half or slightly

322. more than half are actually nunnery and brothers homes.

323. I don't think that's what people thought they were giving their money for.

324. Was the building of a religious institutions to hire

325. and train an order of completely obedient, uneducated nuns.

326. I don't know what's creepier that this was a real agenda for that.

327. Stooges like Catholic boy here. Admit it.

328. Mother Teresa was not interested in having blue chip hospices.

329. She was interested in expanding them.

330. Let's take a tour of her home for the dying and Calcutta.

331. It won't be a happy stroll.

332. This so-called home for the dying,

333. which is our flagship home, is the grimmest place imaginable.

334. Mother Teresa's

335. order does not provide for proper beds in the home.

336. There are little hammocks.

337. There's a communal toilet that people have to defecate in presence of each other.

338. They're not allowed visits from their friends or relatives.

339. Very strange.

340. They have to line the better.

341. Sit in the bed consistently.

342. She had the fucking point and she pissed it away on these.

343. Okay, this is really pissing us off.

344. Come on, let's check out her books and,

345. you know, see exactly how all of her money is spent.

346. missionaries of Charity is the only

347. Indian charitable organization which do not

348. publish its accounts

349. for the public to obtain them.

350. much of our foreign money is kept in the Vatican Bank.

351. This is.

352. Fucking quote.

353. but these bullshit living conditions.

354. That's not very Christlike.

355. Or is it?

356. This is Christ and the broken body.

357. And we catch him.

358. And that that is, comes from the deep faith that Christ cannot deceive.

359. It was her obsession with suffering

360. and and her obsession

361. that people need to suffer in order to come close to Jesus.

362. Obsession with suffering.

363. All we need is an insider who can verify that.

364. You know, like a former nun or something.

365. I'm Kelly Dunham.

366. I'm an excellent on the run and a stand up comic.

367. And I'm hanging out here in front of this Catholic church.

368. Seek and ye shall find.

369. So, like most of you, I'm sure I, used to be a nun.

370. I'm an excellent.

371. Kelly's a stand up comic in Philadelphia.

372. But at one time she was called Sister Mercy and worked side by side with Mother

373. Teresa in a convent in New York, which she saw surprised her.

374. The biggest thing that I think that Mother Teresa should maybe be held

375. accountable for is this cult of suffering that she's created.

376. She definitely has a kind of harsh side.

377. At the

378. convent, Kelly was moved by the pain and misery of the residents, but angered

379. by how she was instructed to deal with it, she was told to be like Mother Teresa.

380. It was required for you to kind of subvert every human emotion.

381. If one of the goals of the missionaries of Charity is to really love people.

382. you've essentially cut yourself off from loving people.

383. That was a life Kelly didn't want.

384. Hopefully this will cover my soul for talking shit about Mother Teresa.

385. So she quit the church.

386. Could never get them lit when I was a nun, either.

387. They're in the business of alleviating suffering, but I think that

388. they believe a lot in suffering, and it's hard to do both at the same time.

389. So what was it with Mother Teresa's suffering?

390. Kink. Is that how she got off?

391. Mother Teresa wanted people

392. to live in impoverished conditions so she could identify with the poor

393. whom she serving.

394. Whoa! Let's play that back.

395. Did he just say what I think he said?

396. Oh, absolutely.

397. Mother Teresa wanted people

398. to live in impoverished conditions so she could identify with the poor

399. whom she serving.

400. They had to suffer so mother fucking Teresa could be enlightened.

401. Oh, what a saint she must.

402. She must have been so enlightened she glow in the dark.

403. She wasn't in the least bit interested

404. in alleviating poverty.

405. We asked Christopher Hitchens about it, and after a few more cigarets

406. and glasses of scotch, he summed it up for us.

407. Can we. Do that? Can we finish this first? Okay.

408. I would say it was a certainty that millions of people, died

409. because of her work, and millions more were made poorer, stupider,

410. more sick, more disease, more fearful and more ignorant.

411. There's ignorance.

412. And then there's Hollywood celebrities.

413. When Shirley MacLaine, Sharon Stone and Steven Seagal attend

414. the same event, it's bound to be a stunning display of gullibility.

415. And sure enough.

416. Ladies and gentlemen, I have the honor to introduce

417. Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.

418. Hey, wait a second.

419. Isn't that Indiana Jones?

420. Oh, I hope there isn't going to be a fight in front of a lama.

421. The very purpose of our life is happiness.

422. Ever since these Tibetans fled their homeland, the threat of the Communist

423. Chinese in 1959, their leader, a Dalai Lama, has been traveling the globe

424. with a trite greeting card philosophy and a warm smile.

425. Desperately trying to enlist help in his quest to free Tibet

426. and return to power.

427. I believe you see every human being

428. have the potential to develop compassion.

429. This idea that he's

430. a humble, spiritual man with just a robe

431. and a bow and a prayer bead isn't really what the Dalai Lama is all about.

432. I'm Michael Parenti, a political writer, author,

433. and noted after dinner raconteur.

434. He headed a social system that was exploitative,

435. terribly, terribly unequal and terribly brutal.

436. Tibet was Shangri-La.

437. That is, if you were the Dalai Lama.

438. No wonder he wants it back.

439. He had a palace and a pile of servants.

440. The rest of the Tibetans

441. lived in huts and eight roast barley meal and yak butter tea.

442. You had a privileged priest class

443. living in utter luxury and opulence,

444. and you had a mass of serfs living in utter misery.

445. And if you broke the law,

446. then torture and mutilation, including eye gouging, the pulling out of tongues

447. and even disemboweling reportedly common punishments.

448. The Dalai Lama sounds more like Moe Howard than a saint.

449. No, no, no. Why? He's got.

450. Yeah, those are those are eyeballs.

451. Since Mr.

452. Lama has been run out of Tibet,

453. the Chinese are going to do secular education, running water and electricity.

454. So maybe life is a bit better on the ground there.

455. Of course, the Chinese have also thrown thousands into labor camps and prisons.

456. Stop that. As much free speech as possible.

457. And there's that whole fucked up communism thing.

458. But if you ask Tenzin Gyatso, Deba Lama,

459. what is with these holy people and their aliases?

460. His holiness will tell you that he must return to power

461. for the good of his people.

462. In this case, good may translate into people living in squalor

463. and his government condoning slavery.

464. Remember, the lesser of two evils is still evil,

465. and the enemy of my enemy is not my friend.

466. As the State

467. Department internal memo reveals, the Dalai Lama at one time

468. took $180,000 a year from the CIA for his living expenses

469. and 1.5 million a year from the spy agency

470. to finance Tibetan guerrilla operations against the Chinese,

471. which included running a covert guerrilla training center in Colorado.

472. Maybe they were nonviolent covert guerrillas.

473. Violence

474. and telling lies.

475. Cheating.

476. These, I believe, basically against human nature.

477. To be fair, the robbed one isn't taking money from the CIA any longer.

478. Once people found out, it became a bit of a PR problem

479. with no more handouts from government bureaucrats, the Dalai

480. Lama had to find a group of people even more gullible.

481. Hey, there's Richard Gere.

482. He was great in American Gigolo.

483. And, oh, there's, Steven Seagal.

484. He was great in, Well, he's he's way into the Dalai Lama.

485. The only thing that is of great importance in my life

486. is to try to become a better human being.

487. To ease the suffering of others and make the world a better place.

488. I don't care about power or fame or money.

489. Fuck.

490. That's easier to say when you're rich, famous and powerful.

491. So what would happen if the Dalai Lama returned to power in Tibet?

492. If he

493. had his way, he would want the Chinese out.

494. He would bring the Lama class back.

495. It would be ruled by monasteries.

496. The aristocrats of the exile community would all go back with him.

497. And it would be like old Tibet, with maybe a few reforms.

498. New from bed, bath and Way Beyond.

499. You're having a fancy dinner party with friends.

500. Like something a little different and a little special

501. for the trip to the kitchen for salt. Dressed for the occasion.

502. The always fashionable Gandhi baby wrap.

503. Now you've got the salt.

504. But feel like you're close enough.

505. To your God, you're Gandhi.

506. He quickly changes into the mother team.

507. Pour a bit of that salt into any wound you find in your guests,

508. and instantly you're in the company of increased suffering.

509. And for those times, you just want everyone to get along with you as leader.

510. A quick flip.

511. And you've got the trademark orange of the Dalai Lama.

512. Sound impossible for one garment?

513. Not with a holier than thou bath towel and magical wardrobe.

514. As an added bonus, you like to combine these sayings and have Christianity,

515. racism, a touch of separatism, plus the sensual intrigue of a mask.

516. You can always wear your holier than thou shroud and the all inclusive

517. special KKK style if you order now.

518. We'll also include our exclusive home, Shroud of Turin kit.

519. You can turn your holier than thou robe into an authentic religious relic to sell

520. on eBay.

521. Order now.

522. And then. Then you're on your own.

523. Meanwhile, our worshipers are still rhapsodies about their chosen one.

524. We all kind of want to help him and his cause.

525. There's just something about him.

526. There's just something about him I mean, I can't really put into words.

527. It's an X factor.

528. This is creeping me out.

529. Let's get back to Mother Teresa.

530. Well, bless you, mother, thrice.

531. God bless. You.

532. In spite of Mother Teresa's glowing reputation.

533. The Catholic Church is in trouble.

534. Priests raping boys will do that.

535. There's panic in the Vatican and something has to be done.

536. One way of keeping the faithful together

537. is the old time religion is the good old fashioned stuff.

538. Let's find a real saint.

539. One who, even the non-Catholics love.

540. Vatican rules say the Mother

541. Teresa hasn't been dead long enough to be a saint.

542. But the Pope said a few magic words and presto, change all.

543. The problem is, God.

544. But Pope land rules require.

545. Mother Teresa must have performed two count them two miracles after her death.

546. The Pope changed that requirement to one.

547. And then how do ya.

548. In a village outside of Calcutta, the church found a woman willing to claim

549. that a church with Mother Teresa's face on it had cured her stomach tumor.

550. Now the woman's own husband said, this miracle is a hoax.

551. My wife was cured by doctors.

552. But who listens to him?

553. No, miracles do not occur.

554. Am dead.

555. People do not cure living.

556. People have disease.

557. It doesn't happen.

558. It's a scandal.

559. There's no truth fairy either.

560. I mean, there's no Santa Claus I have to keep from breaking this stuff to people.

561. And every time they say, what? Are you sure?

562. And I say, yes.

563. Yes, absolutely. I am.

564. Back of the mysterious gathering.

565. The ladies are on the move.

566. It's a rainy night, but nothing is going to stop them. Yep.

567. They're on their way for an audience with the subject of their adoration.

568. Finally, the wait is over.

569. It's time to meet their idol.

570. Oh, but he's not just any idol I know.

571. He's their American idol.

572. Oh, I know.

573. In today's world, we're sort of inundated with heroes.

574. There's so many of them.

575. When you think of Gandhi or Mother Teresa or even the Dalai Lama,

576. you know these cultural icons.

577. Beneath it all are human beings with the same basic

578. needs and desires and fears that we all have.

579. You know, it's unrealistic to think that their motives

580. are always absolutely pure and absolutely selfless.

581. I have this one on my saved on the computer, but this one I don't have.

582. That's a new one to my collection.

583. Hey! Come on. God.

584. What are you waiting for?

585. Here we are.

586. Come on, you pussy. It's right here.

587. Any time. Right there.

588. That's all you got to hit.

589. That's all you got to hit

590. before you start idolizing some sadist in white who loves

591. suffering a racist animal queen or a splatter to stop dictator.

592. I just want his slaves back.

593. Or some American dude who came in second on a TV singing contest.

594. Remember this? There's.

595. There's no such thing as holier than thou.

596. We're all just people sharing a short time together

597. and making the best of this mysterious experience we call life.

598. Take that adoration.

599. Give it to something beautiful that deserves it.

600. Jazz, for example.

601. And don't waste it on.

602. Love and faith go together.

603. They complement each other.

604. Faith is the surrender of the mind.

605. It's the surrender of reason.

606. It's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals.

607. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism, our reason,

608. our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone

609. or something.

610. That is the sinister thing to go.

611. All the virtues, all the supposed virtues.

612. Faith must be the most overrated.