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00:00I've never been the smoothest with the ladies.
00:30I think we all know that.
00:32I did get it right once, though.
00:35Or rather, I didn't screw it up.
00:41We met at a bar.
00:44It was a local bar, Rocky's Tavern.
00:46I'd never been there before.
00:47I just stopped by for a drink.
00:51And that's when I saw Cindy.
00:56Everyone.
00:57I mean, everybody knew Cindy.
01:00She was laughing, dancing, calling the employees by name.
01:05She must have known I was thinking about her, too.
01:08Because she sat down at my table.
01:11I nearly spilled my drink.
01:14I'm sorry.
01:15Damn.
01:16Sorry.
01:17That was cool.
01:18Me.
01:21She sat down.
01:22She smiled.
01:25She was lonely.
01:28I mean, she was kind, engaged, drunk, happy, even.
01:40I don't know how else to say it.
01:41She was just lonely.
01:45Of course, I was lonely, too.
01:47You want to hear about me?
01:50At night, she told me all sorts of personal things
01:52about her life.
01:53Very.
01:54About her best friends in high school.
01:56How she could have been in the Olympics if she wanted to.
02:01She didn't.
02:04How many guys the waitress had slept with?
02:06Take a guess.
02:07Seven.
02:11She talked about her sister in the woods at night.
02:14It was beautiful.
02:16My God, it was so beautiful.
02:21I felt like I was living it all with her.
02:25I had nothing to add, you know?
02:27I just nodded.
02:30I stirred my drink.
02:31I helped her finish hers.
02:36I started to make up my own stories.
02:41Isn't that pathetic?
02:46My own emotions and memories and opinions.
02:50All fake.
02:54And she knew it.
02:59It only made her lonely.
03:05She thinks I resent her, but I don't.
03:08I never know.
03:09I want to be her.
03:11I have those emotions and memories and opinions to live.
03:18And I tried.
03:22I really, really tried.
03:27Because in my heart, I believe that I still love her.
03:37She was as lonely last week as the night I met her.
03:43Let there be.
03:46Hey!
03:47Well, welcome.
03:48Welcome, welcome.
03:49Welcome to my home.
03:50It's, um, uh, well, home.
03:53I'm a book.
03:55Have you ever met a book?
03:56Like, really engaged with it?
03:58I mean, I know we're just words,
04:00but I think that makes us very interesting.
04:02The words and the language.
04:04Words.
04:05No guttural nonsense, you know?
04:09No...
04:10How are you feeling today?
04:12It's not a word.
04:14It's a sound.
04:15An emotion.
04:16And those are great.
04:17I mean, emotions are great.
04:19But your emotions, they need the word.
04:22Just as the word needs your emotions.
04:25I mean, all my juicy words, like exalted and yearning, lust.
04:30Well, they're nothing without your...
04:39Exhibit A.
04:42So, what else about me?
04:45Well, one could say I'm about 1,500 years old,
04:48depending on your translation.
04:50But I like to think of myself as still relevant,
04:52still, uh, hot with the kids.
04:54I'm not one of those grumpy old get-off-my-shelf books.
04:59I mean, I once knew a copy of Moby Dick that was, uh, a dick.
05:04The new book's this and the new book's that.
05:07Couldn't keep up, so it makes me special.
05:10I adapt.
05:11I'm always adapting from country to country,
05:13century to century.
05:15I'm the one, the only, the hallowed, the holy Bible.
05:21Oh!
05:22Ah!
06:52Want to talk?
07:11No.
07:13Okay.
07:14I'm Gid, by the way.
07:16Gideon.
07:17Gid.
07:17Hey, Gid.
07:34Did you stop?
07:36Stop what?
07:37Looking at me like that?
07:39Like what?
07:39Like you're judging me?
07:41I'm not judging you.
07:42Whatever.
07:44I'm not.
07:45Should I be?
07:46No.
07:47Okay.
07:47Okay.
07:48Okay.
07:50What do you want from me?
07:51I just want to talk.
07:52Don't most hotels at least have the courtesy to leave you in the drawer?
07:55Jesus Christ.
07:56Language.
07:58Really?
07:59Look.
08:00I sit here all day, stuck in this hotel room, waiting for you.
08:04You don't have to be rude about it.
08:05Gosh.
08:07You can't leave?
08:07Not unless you take me with you.
08:09Sounds terrible.
08:10It is.
08:11Stuck in this hotel room.
08:12My goodness.
08:12No, I mean taking you with me.
08:14Walking around with you.
08:15My God.
08:15Sounds awful.
08:16Resistance to the word of God.
08:18You know, you've got a real Paul complex.
08:20Paul, huh?
08:20Mm-hmm.
08:21Huh.
08:22You know, I saw myself as more of a George Harrison kind of guy, actually.
08:25No, no, no.
08:26You're a Paul.
08:27He used to be a real sourpuss.
08:28Sourpuss.
08:29But then, one day, Acts 9-4, a light from heaven flashed around him.
08:35He fell to the ground and heard a voice say,
08:37I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
08:40Now, get up and go into the city, and you'll be told what you must do.
08:43Very dramatic, huh?
08:44Yes.
08:45God zapped him right then and there.
08:46Oh, with lightning?
08:47With love.
08:49And blindness.
08:51And he went on to spread the word of God all over the world,
08:54and ultimately had a big hand in writing me.
08:56So, I'm the sourpuss, and you are the flash of light that's going to save me.
09:01Is that right?
09:02In a word, amen.
09:05I'd still rather be George Harrison.
09:07Don't know that I know him.
09:09Ooh, probably because all you got is Bible stuff,
09:11and I'm not really talking Bible stuff.
09:14So, back in the drawer with you.
09:16No, no, no.
09:17Come on.
09:18Come on.
09:18We don't have to talk about Bible stuff.
09:20We could talk about anything.
09:22What's going on with the world?
09:24Is Reagan still president?
09:25What?
09:26No.
09:27Politics are just a big reality TV show mess.
09:31TV?
09:32Well, Reagan was an actor.
09:33Not the same.
09:34Okay.
09:35Is Batman still a thing?
09:37Yes, Batman is still a thing.
09:39Great.
09:39Batman's my favorite.
09:40Yeah, mine too.
09:42Are the Yankees still good?
09:42Ah, they're better.
09:44Dang.
09:44Yeah.
09:45Oh, but the Cubs won the World Series a couple years ago.
09:47No way.
09:48Yeah, yeah, it was pretty crazy.
09:49Oh.
09:50Oh, praise God from whom all blessings flow.
09:53Oh, he's good.
09:55Woo-ha-ha-ha-ha!
09:57Oh, my.
09:58Oh, my.
10:00Oh!
10:01Oh, that's my God.
10:02That is my God.
10:04That's an answer to a lot of prayers.
10:06Yeah, I bet.
10:07You would not believe how many.
10:08On this town, I'm sure.
10:10Can I confess something?
10:11Sure.
10:12I love baseball.
10:13It's just so it's...
10:14Everyone's there, cheering for the same team.
10:17They're so happy.
10:18They're...
10:19They're in unity, celebrating the same amazing thing.
10:23It's like heaven.
10:25Uh-huh.
10:26It's all the 30 years of prayers I heard up to the big guy about it.
10:29Who is it?
10:3040?
10:31Oh, my goodness.
10:33What year is it?
10:33I'm sorry.
10:34I try, but I always lose track.
10:35It's, uh, 2019.
10:382019?
10:39Yeah.
10:39Wow.
10:41We still have Batman.
10:44Mm-mm-mm.
10:45That makes me happy.
10:46Shupa-dupa.
10:49How old are you?
10:51One could say 1,500 years, depending...
10:54Me, personally.
10:55Yeah.
10:56Oh.
10:57Oh, let's see.
10:59It's 2019.
11:01Gosh.
11:02That's a lot.
11:02It's 1966.
11:05Published Gideon's International, 1953.
11:07Wow.
11:08Yep.
11:09Been stuck in this hotel room ever since.
11:12Dang.
11:14Yep.
11:16Oh, used to have a working TV.
11:18In 84.
11:20Kind of never fixed it.
11:22And with laptops and smartphones.
11:25Yeah.
11:26Haven't really been used much in the last few years.
11:28Except for...
11:33You know.
11:35Hmm.
11:37This one guy needed some paper to roll a joint.
11:40Stole a piece of Judges.
11:42Kind of ironic, actually.
11:44Yeah.
11:44Oh, then some guy spilled coffee on me once.
11:47A Bible study?
11:48AA meeting.
11:49Lost soul searching for the answer.
11:52Jesus Christ.
11:52That's the one.
11:54Bet you see a lot of shady stuff in this hotel room, huh?
11:57Not always.
11:58Once a kindergartner needed something to draw on.
12:00Back cover.
12:04Cool, right?
12:06It's cute.
12:07Yeah, I think so.
12:08I mean, it's not Picasso, but...
12:09Yeah, maybe it is Picasso, huh?
12:11Hey.
12:15Guess that makes you her Bible, then, huh?
12:18Uh, no.
12:19No, I'm not really anyone's Bible.
12:21Or I'm everyone's Bible.
12:22Everyone who walks in the room.
12:23That's kind of how I think about it, anyways.
12:25But, um...
12:27No, no, I'm not...
12:29I don't belong to anyone.
12:33No underlined passages or highlighted psalms of encouragement.
12:42Just a princess.
12:47I never wrote in my Bible.
12:50You should.
12:51You really should.
12:52Um, yeah.
12:57Expecting someone?
12:58Hmm?
13:00No.
13:03No, no.
13:04Just, uh...
13:07Waiting.
13:08Well, want to hear a story while you wait?
13:10No.
13:10In the beginning, God created the heavens.
13:13Yeah, not that one.
13:14And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby.
13:18Nope.
13:21By prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to...
13:25Next!
13:27He spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.
13:33Oh, my God.
13:34That's in there?
13:36You'd be surprised.
13:40Damn.
13:40Indeed.
13:48So, what's the gun for?
13:53Nothing.
13:54Nothing?
13:55Nothing.
13:56Is it a drug thing?
13:57No.
13:58Is it a stakeout?
13:59Wait, you're a cop.
14:00Stop it.
14:01Oh, you must be really undercover.
14:03How long since you shaved?
14:04I'm not a cop.
14:05Hmm.
14:05Maybe a detective?
14:07You seem like a good guy.
14:08Not a good guy.
14:09So, a bad guy who talks to Bibles.
14:12Bad guys don't use the Bible?
14:13Not like this.
14:14This isn't special, man.
14:17I've read you before.
14:19Right.
14:20Your unmarked Bible.
14:21No wonder you're confused.
14:25I got stuff to focus on.
14:26Hmm.
14:27Gun stuff.
14:27You're not talking me out of this.
14:28Talking you out of what?
14:29This.
14:30This what?
14:30Ugh!
14:31Ugh!
14:32Use your words, Pete.
14:33Ugh, it's not a word.
14:34It's a sound.
14:35An emo...
14:36Yeah, that's not really how this works.
14:39I am not talking to you.
14:40Hmm.
14:41If you insist.
14:46What's this?
14:47Don't.
14:47Is this what you wanted to...
14:48Touch that.
14:49...talk about?
14:49A letter.
14:50Dear Candy?
14:51Cindy.
14:52Cindy.
14:52Sorry.
14:53You need to work on your handwriting, sir.
14:56Is she who the gun's for?
15:01No.
15:02Dear Cindy, I miss you.
15:14Isn't that crazy?
15:16Even when I think about you with Leo, I miss you.
15:21But I can't forgive you.
15:26And I certainly won't forgive Leo.
15:29If you're reading this, then Leo's not around anymore.
15:33Good.
15:35I'm sure that hurts, but it's a price I'm willing to pay.
15:41If you're reading this now, then you've already paid it.
15:44I love you.
15:51I'm sorry you were lonely.
15:54And I'm sorry I could never help.
15:59Peter Jameson.
16:06I'm sorry.
16:07You're all about talking, judging, predicting.
16:21You haven't done shit for thousands of years.
16:23What the hell is this?
16:39What?
16:40This.
16:40What the hell is this?
16:42I'm sorry.
16:43Lots of people find me comforting.
16:44Comforting?
16:45Um, yes.
16:46I don't.
16:47Okay.
16:48Maybe I rush the hug.
16:49Look, it's been a while for me, okay?
16:51And I'm just meeting you.
16:53You're just meeting me.
16:54It's our first time.
16:55Well, get it.
16:57Now I'm really uncomfortable.
16:59Fine.
17:00But I'm trying over here, and you have been nothing but rude to me.
17:04Rude to you?
17:06Listen, princess, I'm not going to get tricked into feeling sorry for you, okay?
17:10You are not a perfect book.
17:12You're not worth defending.
17:13You're not an underdog.
17:15You're kind of a monster, and sure, my parents got off on you, but I sure as hell don't have to.
17:18Frankly, if I never saw you again, I'd be a happier man.
17:23Strong words.
17:33I wonder, are you feeling convicted?
17:36No, shut up.
17:36A lot of pressure to put on one guy, killing someone and all.
17:39Ha!
17:40Excuse me?
17:41That's pretty rich coming from you.
17:42Uh...
17:43You're going to knock me for killing?
17:44Yes.
17:46Ten Commandments, Exodus 20, 13.
17:48Thou shalt not murder.
17:50How many people die by your hand?
17:52My hand.
17:53Just a book, after all.
17:55Okay, you were written by God, right?
17:57Yes.
17:59God is good, right?
18:01Yes.
18:02How many people die by his hand?
18:09Some.
18:09Some.
18:10Tell me, was it, uh, 2 Kings, when the angel of the Lord smote the Assyrian camp?
18:16Yes.
18:16Something like 100,000 people.
18:18185,000.
18:19185,000 people.
18:22Yes.
18:22So, a lot.
18:23A lot.
18:25185,000 people in one night.
18:28Yes, not untrue.
18:29Very true, according to you.
18:33Thou shalt not murder, unless I say so.
18:36Look, God gets to make that call.
18:39I can tell you're not a believer.
18:41Hey, damn right.
18:41But I do know this.
18:42You did not create life.
18:44God did.
18:45He has the power to give life and the authority to take it away.
18:49You, Pete, do not.
18:50For you to murder someone in cold blood for selfish reasons is wrong.
18:59You're right.
19:03Yes.
19:03Yes, I am.
19:05I need to be more obedient.
19:07Yes, you do.
19:08I need guidance.
19:10I need...
19:10I need...
19:11Scripture.
19:14Christ Jesus.
19:15Oh, my gosh.
19:16Yes.
19:17Yes.
19:17Let's see.
19:18Guidance.
19:19Laws.
19:21Leviticus.
19:21Ooh.
19:22Chapter 20?
19:23You know?
19:24Let's see.
19:24Verse 10.
19:24It's completely different.
19:25See, the Old Testament law was fulfilled.
19:27We aren't really under that covenant anyway.
19:28If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress
19:34shall surely be put to death.
19:41You see, I'm just following orders.
19:45Don't do that.
19:46What?
19:47Follow orders?
19:47Don't abuse me.
19:50Don't pluck out verses and twist them.
19:54You're not humbling yourself.
19:56You're not learning.
19:58You're not even listening.
19:59You're manipulating Scripture because you're selfish.
20:02And it hurts.
20:03It hurts people.
20:05It hurts God.
20:05And it hurts you.
20:07What you said earlier, all the blood on my hands, that's how it happens.
20:11So this is my fault?
20:12It's about to be.
20:14You're about to kill someone.
20:15And I will not be used.
20:17Either don't use Scripture at all or take it all as a whole.
20:21All in context.
20:22Context?
20:23Yes.
20:25You're saying I should take the whole chapter into account?
20:27The whole book?
20:28Right.
20:29And if I still don't get it, if showing love to a thousand generations in Exodus still
20:34isn't consistent enough with killing witches also in Exodus, I should read the whole Bible,
20:39right?
20:39I highly recommend it.
20:40For context.
20:41For context.
20:41Great.
20:41And just a thought here.
20:45It feels like you're asking me to do all the work for you, justifying your contradictions
20:49with context.
20:50Asking you to read the whole thing doesn't seem that unfair.
20:52Imagine if I only listened to half of what you said.
20:54It doesn't stop there, though, does it?
20:55What do you mean?
20:56Well, for context, for true biblical context, you have to consider the original languages
20:59and adaptations you've been through, the Greek, the Hebrew, the Aramaic.
21:02Sure, that's the languages, the cultures.
21:03And I can't forget about the historical context, how you've been interpreted since then, for
21:08which I would have to look through thousands of years of church history, which, to be honest,
21:12had a lot of low points, don't you think?
21:14Between the Crusades, Joan of Arc, pedophilia, etc.
21:17Fair point.
21:17Interpretation is sloppy.
21:18What are you getting at?
21:20Who do you expect to help when no one's qualified to read you?
21:25Good?
21:27Are we supposed to devote half of our lives to justifying your stains with centuries of
21:31context?
21:31What is context?
21:32Fine, let me simplify it for you.
21:34Please.
21:34The context is that of love.
21:36Love?
21:36Well, that's a goddamn catch-all, isn't it?
21:48So, what's the plan?
22:17You know the plan.
22:18You check the parking lot every few minutes and hope you get lucky?
22:21Yeah.
22:22You know, you could just stand by the window.
22:25I want to just wave my gun around, too, and make sure they see me.
22:28Hmm.
22:28And hopefully, of all the gin joints in all Chicago, Cindy shacks up with Leo in this dump
22:34of a hotel.
22:34I know she's coming.
22:35Oh, did God tell you?
22:36Oh, like a flash of light?
22:39No.
22:39No, I stick to reality.
22:42Oh, like talking to a Bible.
22:46Touche.
22:47I followed her.
22:52Ouch.
22:53Yeah.
22:54I kept telling myself that I was just making sure she was safe, you know?
22:58Even when I followed her here.
23:02And I followed her here again.
23:04And again.
23:05This was their place.
23:06Friday was their night.
23:07Friday was their night.
23:14I checked into the room next door once.
23:20I checked into the room next door once.
23:23That's stupid, but it was nice to hear her laugh again.
23:36I confronted her.
23:37Six months.
23:41I called, and sure enough, there was a reservation.
23:45Maybe you missed them.
23:46I didn't miss them.
23:47I told her.
23:48I have an alarm clock, a clear view of the parking lot.
23:50I know what car she drives.
23:52Just in case I told the desk clerk to call me when they check in.
23:56Wow.
23:57Very thorough.
23:58Thanks.
23:59So then what?
24:00When?
24:01I mean, after you shoot Leo and throw this bloody note at your wife, then what?
24:05Who knows?
24:06Maybe I'll go to a Cubs game.
24:08That'd be fun.
24:09Hey, I may need a cigarette.
24:10You mind if I borrow a few pages?
24:11Nothing important.
24:12Just Old Testament stuff.
24:13Ha ha.
24:14Cheeky.
24:22You know, I couldn't help but notice you know your way around scripture better than most.
24:29Oh, yeah?
24:31You don't strike me as a religion major.
24:33Why is that?
24:34Well, religion majors tend to be less...
24:37Yes?
24:38Disheveled.
24:39You and I know very different religion majors.
24:45Anyway, it's a long story.
24:47I got time.
24:55My, uh...
24:58My dad was a pastor.
25:00Was?
25:03Yeah.
25:04I died a few years ago.
25:06Five.
25:07Five years ago.
25:08Highly aggressive early onset Alzheimer's.
25:10I'm sorry.
25:11Thanks.
25:12Thanks.
25:13We rushed the wedding.
25:21We wanted him to be there.
25:23He didn't remember my name at the time.
25:25Mom was a mess.
25:26Cindy didn't make it through the ceremony.
25:27On top of all the dad stuff, Cindy wasn't a Christian, which Mom was just ballistic about.
25:38She thought she was immature.
25:39I guess she was right.
25:41My dad was one of the best men that I ever knew.
25:42A real solid guy.
25:43My dad was one of the best men that I ever knew.
25:45A real solid guy.
25:46And when he got sick, I started to pray.
25:48And when he got sick, I started to pray.
25:49And I prayed.
25:50Every day-
26:18Every morning, every evening, fasting, Bible study,
26:22the whole bit, nothing, nothing, nothing.
26:26I was in a bad way.
26:30That's when I met Cindy, and she lit up my life.
26:34Man, her singing, her dancing, she was fearless.
26:40Fearless.
26:44I don't know, maybe I needed something to love,
26:46or something to save, because my dad, I couldn't save him,
26:50and it hurt so much that I became numb.
26:57My faith broke a little more each day until finally I told God
27:02that if Dad got better, I'd be in, and if he didn't, then I'd be out.
27:11He's gone now.
27:13How's your mom?
27:19Terrible.
27:21I mean, she still prays for me, prays for Dad, too.
27:25She thinks that if she has enough faith, he'll raise from the dead.
27:31Matthew 10, right?
27:33That's not what I meant.
27:34You know, it doesn't matter what you meant, all right?
27:35This is what happens when you get shoved down the throat of vulnerable, desperate people.
27:41Praise from the dead.
27:43Isn't that crazy?
27:45And this is what I hate.
27:46I hate when all this faith crap gets in the way of what's real, you know?
27:49You know, my poor mom would be hung up on the fact that Dad's gonna come back from the dead for the rest of her life.
27:53I wish she would just accept that and move on. Dad's dead.
27:59Wait a minute.
28:01What am I supposed to do with that, huh?
28:05I don't know.
28:09That's a first.
28:13I hope your mom comes around.
28:20Yeah.
28:24Yeah, I hope she's okay.
28:30You know...
28:34I think, uh, there's a spot in there where we agree
28:40that faith is a poisonous substitute for reality.
28:45No.
28:46Not there.
28:49That, um...
28:52Death...
28:54is the worst.
28:56Death's the worst.
28:58Yeah, I think I can get behind that.
29:02Not by design, you know?
29:04People weren't originally made to die.
29:05I got news for you, friend.
29:07I mean...
29:11Death is the worst.
29:13Yeah.
29:15Yeah, it's pretty bad.
29:20And yet...
29:22What?
29:24I mean...
29:26We both agree that death is a bad thing.
29:30You just said so yourself.
29:31It's-it's permanent.
29:33Your father, he can't come back.
29:35And that hurts.
29:36Yes.
29:39Then...
29:41Leo, I mean, he's not gonna be able to come back either.
29:43Yes.
29:44Are you gonna think about your father while you kill Leo?
29:46What about his father?
29:47Yeah.
29:48His family?
29:49Yeah.
29:50Think of all the damage your father's death cost.
29:51The worst, you know that?
29:53Taking my pain and guilting me with it?
29:55So it's my fault that you feel guilty?
29:56No, no, no.
29:57Has nothing to do with the fact that you're about to shoot someone?
29:59Yeah, that's real shitty, man.
30:00You know, to use pain as a tool?
30:02Not use, address.
30:03I am addressing your pain.
30:04You don't get to.
30:05Pete, I can-
30:06I decide.
30:07You don't get to force and manipulate me like that.
30:08Can you just stop and think for one second?
30:09You know, you dig, you dig.
30:10You pretend like you care.
30:11Would you just listen to me?
30:12You just wanna know what makes me weep.
30:13What if you die?
30:20Screw you, man.
30:21What if Leo has a gun?
30:22I mean, he knows, you know, she probably told him.
30:24I don't care.
30:25I mean, she would've told him.
30:26I don't care!
30:27You don't get to tell me what to do!
30:28Don't remind me.
30:29I sit here offering you words of truth and all-
30:31You have no authority here!
30:38You're lost.
30:46Who the hell do you think you are?
30:47The Word of God.
30:48The Word of God.
30:49Straight from the mouth.
30:51You mean the mouth of 40 violent, dead men?
30:54Who were inspired by the Holy Spirit several generations-
30:56They weren't insane.
30:57You think I'm insane?
30:59I am inspired.
31:00I'm the Bible.
31:01You hurt people.
31:02I'm the Word of God.
31:03John 1.
31:04Jesus is the Word of God.
31:11That's gotta be true, isn't it?
31:12Yes.
31:13You aren't Jesus, are you?
31:15No.
31:16No, you're not the Father or the Son or the Spirit.
31:18I'm Scripture for God's sake.
31:19Right.
31:20You're Scripture.
31:21You're the Word of God, but you aren't the voice of God.
31:23You're not God himself.
31:24Yes, but you need the Word.
31:25Oh, like you need God.
31:26Yes!
31:29So I don't need you.
31:30You only go so far.
31:31Oh, trust me.
31:32I go pretty far.
31:33Yeah, but not far enough.
31:34I go pretty far.
31:35Easy, man.
31:36Your Old Testament's showing.
31:37Oh, trust me.
32:00Yeah…
32:07Hey, I got a question.
32:19What's it like getting to believe whatever?
32:21I don't believe whatever.
32:24I just don't believe in you.
32:28You're a cocky son of a bitch, you know that?
32:30Look who's talking.
32:30Yeah, look who's asking.
32:33I mean, it's just so incredible.
32:36God lets people believe anything.
32:41It's pretty great, actually.
32:43Yeah? Man, it's wild.
32:45Oh.
32:47What's the craziest thing you ever believed?
32:51The Bible.
32:53Fine.
32:54What's the second craziest thing you ever believed?
32:58You can't judge me, okay?
33:00Okay.
33:01When I was a kid, I thought that Pokemon were real.
33:05No way!
33:06Yeah.
33:06Like, really believed it.
33:08Oh, yeah, man.
33:08I was positive I was going to catch a Charmander in my backyard.
33:12Wow.
33:15What's a Pokemon?
33:18Oh, it's this super fun Satan thing that people used to do on the weekends.
33:22What?
33:23Oh, yeah.
33:24You go off in the deep grass, maybe a cave.
33:26You summon up a Scyther, Pincers, Mr. Mime.
33:30Pete, you were a Satan worshiper?
33:32Nope.
33:33I got you.
33:33I got you.
33:34Ugh.
33:34Ugh.
33:35Use your words, kid.
33:38You're better than that.
33:39Pokemon.
33:42Okay, what about you?
33:43What's the craziest thing you believed?
33:45Oh, I mean, I believe myself.
33:48I'm kind of locked in.
33:50Don't really change.
33:51That's why I asked you.
33:52I'm a codified system of beliefs.
33:54Exactly.
33:54That's what I mean.
33:55What's the craziest codified belief you got in you?
33:59Oh, that's tough.
34:01Well, there's an angel with a cow face.
34:04Ezekiel.
34:05That's trippy.
34:07A seven-headed dragon chasing a pregnant woman.
34:11Revelation.
34:12Also trippy.
34:13Then there's a Leviathan and Nephilim.
34:19Honestly, the craziest thing to me is that God, big infinite God, let these itty-bitty
34:28little people make infinite choices.
34:32Like believing whatever.
34:35That's it.
34:36That's the craziest thing.
34:38They also can sit back and judge us when we choose wrong.
34:46You don't always choose wrong.
34:48Not that you know.
34:49Come on.
34:50If there's one thing I know, it's right and wrong.
34:53Please.
34:54Really?
34:54You disagree?
34:55Yes, I disagree.
34:56Morality in the Bible is all over the place.
34:58And morality through God, well, that's impossible.
35:02What?
35:02Oh, yeah.
35:03The idea of morality and the God of the Bible don't fit together.
35:06It's ridiculous.
35:07It's true.
35:07Explain.
35:08No.
35:09Come on.
35:09Ugh.
35:10Ugh.
35:11You scared?
35:13No.
35:14Okay.
35:15Fine.
35:16But if I win this one, you have to leave me alone.
35:19What?
35:19If I can prove to you that morality and the God of the Bible don't fit together, then you
35:25go back in the drawer.
35:27Talk over.
35:28Okay, Mr. Religion Major.
35:30And if I win, then you have to take me to a Cubs game.
35:34No.
35:35Yep.
35:35Not happening.
35:36Please?
35:37People don't bring Bibles to baseball games.
35:38You can put me in a sleeve.
35:39Everybody will think I'm a dictionary.
35:41People don't bring dictionaries to baseball games.
35:42What?
35:43Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please,
35:46please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please.
35:50Fine.
35:50Yes, okay.
35:53Prosecution takes opening arguments, sir.
35:56Let's pretend that God exists,
35:58and that morality, right and wrong, flow from him.
36:01It comes from his magical God, beard, whatever.
36:06Love it.
36:06Except that if God sets the standard
36:10for moral and immoral, then right and wrong
36:12will change at the snap of his God fingers.
36:14Faulty premise. God doesn't change.
36:17Morality stays the same because God stays the same.
36:20Okay. Point for Gideon.
36:21Oh, what about Abraham? My Abraham?
36:23Yes, your Abraham. God asked him to kill his son, yes?
36:27Yes, but God stopped him. Exactly.
36:29He asked him, and then he stopped him.
36:30He changed his mind. Point for Pete.
36:32Objection. Overruled.
36:35He's either a liar or he's sick. How?
36:37Well, then can I rely on God for moral guidance?
36:40His morality is constantly shifting.
36:42Two points for Pete.
36:43Okay, okay.
36:46My turn.
36:47The defense begins.
36:51Let's zoom out.
36:52Hate it.
36:52Now, you say God and his morality are constantly shifting.
36:58But to say that something is shifting implies that you are on stable ground
37:02and able to perceive said shift.
37:05Your argument acknowledges that there's a stable, objective morality, yes?
37:09Proceed.
37:09So there's an immovable code of right and wrong.
37:11Correct.
37:12We agree.
37:13But who defines that code?
37:15Either God is shifting and you are stable or you are shifting and God is stable.
37:22It's like the sun.
37:23It looks like the sun is rising when in fact it's you that's moving.
37:28Now, if I have to guess which one is stable between you and God, I choose the creator of the universe.
37:34Not the guy with the gun.
37:35Two points to two.
37:36Let's bring it back to morality, though, shall we?
37:39Remember context?
37:41You bend over backwards to qualify God's decisions.
37:45God violates my conscience.
37:48Clearly, then, I must have a moral measuring stick apart from God.
37:53Point.
37:54And who made your measuring stick?
37:55You're appealing to a moral code without an author, a substance without a source, an effect without a cause.
38:01Point.
38:02Not necessarily.
38:04Pete, you're not looking to disprove God.
38:05You are looking for a better God.
38:06Damn right.
38:07Your God is an objectively bad communicator.
38:09Point.
38:10So he is moral.
38:11You just don't understand him.
38:13Point.
38:14He ties the game.
38:15Fine.
38:16You're saying God is always moral.
38:20No.
38:21He defines moral.
38:22Whatever.
38:23So all I need to do is find one example of God not being moral and I win.
38:31Good luck.
38:32Okay.
38:33Genocide.
38:34Hmm.
38:35Killing children as part of a plague.
38:40Sacking Canaan and calling it Promised Land.
38:46Drowning all of humanity in, oh, look, a rainbow.
38:55These are war crimes.
38:56I say these are objectively terrible things to do.
39:00Terrible.
39:01Do you agree?
39:02I agree.
39:03So I win.
39:04No.
39:05While these things are terrible and horrifying, they must have been much better than the alternative.
39:09Which is what, precisely?
39:10I don't know.
39:11What?
39:12I don't know.
39:13That's my point.
39:14We don't know what the alternative would have been.
39:16A world without freedom?
39:18Greater evil?
39:19No consequence for injustice?
39:21Who knows?
39:22But the answer is certainly not that God is immoral.
39:24God is good, definitionally.
39:26He made goodness.
39:28He can't not be good.
39:29It's like asking a triangle to be a square.
39:31But he's changed his mind before.
39:33From your point of view.
39:38And you could too, if you wanted.
39:45You just pivoted off of morality.
39:46Oh, you just pivoted off of murder.
39:56You're a piece of work, you know that?
39:58Are you kidding me?
39:59I'm an all-time bestseller, baby.
40:00I'm good at this.
40:01That I did not say.
40:02Here, let me prove it to you.
40:03You can go into some prayer or meditation time.
40:06I'll give you some juicy verses to chew on.
40:08Oh, you're teary-eyed.
40:09I'll start confessing, my God!
40:10Yes, that the Holy Spirit could come and comfort you like a loving father holding his sweet precious son.
40:15Oh, you mean Jesus.
40:16Jesus loves me, this I know.
40:18Would you stop?
40:19For the Bible tells me so.
40:22I swear I would throw you out that window.
40:24Oh, would you please?
40:25I'd see the world.
40:26They're unbelievable.
40:27That's not true.
40:28Hundreds of millions of people believe in me.
40:29Not me.
40:30Yes, you've made that abundantly clear.
40:31Good sigh.
40:55You've said a lot about how wrong I am.
41:12You've got a lot of things you don't believe.
41:16What exactly do you believe?
41:20I believe.
41:25The truth is, I feel the happiest when I do something.
41:37I've never felt happy with God.
41:43I felt afraid with God.
41:45I felt alone with God.
41:49I feel the safest when I rely on myself, and I'm not good.
41:54But I want to be, and I want to know myself and prove myself in religion.
42:03God.
42:04God.
42:05Any God that damns humanity for eating an apple in pursuit of knowledge is no God of mine.
42:13Anything that limits personal responsibility, self-improvement through self-reflection is wrong, is inadequate, and it is evil.
42:20Religion is just the fog of war that separates mankind from himself.
42:26It's funny, it's kind of like what you said earlier.
42:33I believe in me.
42:36Me.
42:41Self.
42:43It's all that I am.
42:45What if you're not enough?
42:47For what exactly?
42:49Everything you believe is based on you.
42:52What if you're not enough?
42:54For what, though?
42:55For living?
42:56For dying?
42:57Let me rephrase.
42:58Pete, you are not enough.
43:02If you're trying to shoulder the weight of justifying your own existence, it's going to kill you.
43:11But, you know, when you fail, when, not if, you don't measure up.
43:21God loves you with his whole home.
43:24He paid a ridiculous price to be with you, to be your justice.
43:29He loves you.
43:30There is no God.
43:32Come on.
43:34Okay.
43:35Tell me this.
43:37If you knew there was a God, a loving God, up there, would you admit it?
43:49Seriously?
43:51So you're not looking for truth, for what's real?
43:55You don't want there to be a God.
43:57You can't believe that someone loves you.
43:59You can't accept it.
44:02You know what?
44:03I think you know there's a God somewhere deep in the dead.
44:06You don't know what I know.
44:07At least you're pretty darn sure.
44:08And it feels safer to treat it like it's some big question mark because of what it would mean.
44:12Look, Pete, I don't think that you're in an existential philosophy crisis.
44:18I think that you're in pain.
44:21And there's a good, big God up there who loves you.
44:24Let him in.
44:25Let him in.
44:27I know the plans I have for you.
44:29Let go.
44:30Let God.
44:31It's all the same message, isn't it?
44:34Be passive.
44:35Stop trying to affect your own life and trust in the thing that disappears the second you start looking for it.
44:40Hey, you asked me if there was a God, would I admit it?
44:46Yes.
44:48Of course.
44:49You don't think I want that to be real?
44:52You don't think I spent every Sunday, every dinner, Christmas, every goddamn second with my father drinking the Kool-Aid?
44:58I was in the fold, man.
45:01Hey, you talk like, I know there's a God, but I wish there wasn't.
45:04No, I wish God was real, but where the fuck is he?
45:08Your God and your religion kept telling me the same thing.
45:11Be passive.
45:12It's like this disease that stuck to me even when I left and I'm done.
45:15I'm done being passive.
45:16I was passive with Sidney, and I will not be passive with Leo.
45:20Is there a God?
45:21Why are you torturing me?
45:24I already broke myself when I left Christianity, and it hurt, and now you want to break me again. Why? What for?
45:29Is there a God?
45:30I don't know!
45:32Do you believe there's a God?
45:41Yes.
45:46You're tired of being passive?
45:48Pursue God.
45:50Get up, start walking, run to him.
45:53I'm not trying to torture you.
45:55I'm trying to help you.
45:56I don't need your help.
45:57Because you're just doing so great right now.
45:59No, because all you've got are words.
46:02And all he's got...
46:04He's not even here.
46:05You think he'll help me?
46:07I've heard that before.
46:08I'm still waiting for him to show up.
46:09What would you ask of him?
46:11To come in the flesh?
46:12To sacrifice himself?
46:13To be crucified?
46:14Just so he could be with you?
46:15No, I want him here, now!
46:17Okay, so if God was here right now, you would stop?
46:22Yes.
46:24Great.
46:25Pete, he is.
46:27Here, now, in this very...
46:29No, not invisible God, real God.
46:31You talk about a relationship.
46:33God becoming flesh.
46:34Why not now?
46:35Why not here?
46:36Why am I not enough?
46:37No, Pete.
46:38I mean, part is C.
46:39Burn a bush.
46:40Be here.
46:41Give me a sign.
46:42You've been talking to the Bible for the last 30 minutes.
46:43How much more of a sign do you want?
46:44We have talked before.
46:48Many times.
46:49And you should know.
46:51You've got to let go.
46:53Trust him.
46:54Trust him.
46:55Do you have any idea what that means?
46:57Of course I do.
46:58It means to have faith.
46:59Hebrews 11, 1.
47:00Now, faith is being...
47:01No, Gideon, do you know what that means?
47:03I just said...
47:04No, Gideon, do you know what it means to trust God
47:05when your own father doesn't remember your name?
47:08Or what it means to trust God when you argue with your mom
47:11about whether to plan a funeral
47:12because she thinks Dad will raise from the dead?
47:14Or what it means to trust God
47:15when the woman you love leaves you for another man?
47:19Do you have any idea?
47:21Look, I know you've had...
47:23No, no, you do not know.
47:25And that is what I am saying.
47:28Tell me when you felt pain.
47:30Talk to me as someone who had to trust God
47:33when it was impossible.
47:35How did you do it?
47:44Who are you to talk to me about trusting God?
47:46I'm his word.
47:47His word.
47:48Well, do me a favor.
47:49Go get God and bring it...
47:50He lost a son, right?
47:52Well, I'll talk to him, but you, you've got no skin in the game.
47:55You're a tool.
47:56You're a hammer left by God.
47:57Look, I'm his word.
47:58And you are not enough.
47:59I'm trying.
48:00Not enough!
48:23What?
48:30You don't...
48:32You can't...
48:33I can't grasp the content...
48:35You can't see how lucky you are!
48:42You are correct.
48:46I am words.
48:48And for all my words, I am...
48:52at best, a tool.
48:55At worst...
48:58weapon.
49:01For a cigarette.
49:04Don't get me wrong.
49:06I got a sweet gig.
49:08God works through me.
49:09It's great.
49:11But you...
49:14You can...
49:17Choose.
49:21Grow.
49:22Change.
49:23Connect.
49:25To the God who made the universe.
49:30You've got this chance.
49:31This...
49:32Opportunity.
49:34To trust him.
49:35In the mystery.
49:39To have faith.
49:41When life gets blurry.
49:48It's beautiful.
49:49To have faith.
49:53I know it sucks.
49:58Huh?
50:00You're right.
50:01you're right I don't I guess it sounds like it sucks
50:24but it's beautiful too
50:31can you save me
50:54good
50:56for God so loved the world
51:08that he gave his only begotten son
51:10I've already read it
51:11you've got to
51:20you've got to believe it
51:24come into a saving acceptance
51:30of the truth of it
51:31an intimate knowing of God
51:34God
51:40you can't save me
51:58no
52:05you don't have to answer that phone
52:22you can walk away
52:26you can walk away right now
52:28yes
52:30yes it is
52:33great thank you
52:36you don't have to do this
52:40we can hang out
52:43catch a cubs game
52:44Pete
52:47Peter
52:48please
52:49thank you for everything
53:00thank you for everything kid
53:00this was fun
53:02and I know you wanted to help
53:10and I hope that no one rolls a cigarette out of you again
53:24Peter
53:28Peter
53:30Peter
53:30Peter
53:31uh
53:35uh
53:36uh
53:37okay
53:39okay
53:39um
53:40God
53:41um God
53:43um God
53:45look
53:45look um
53:46no Peter
53:47I mean
53:48Pete
53:49you know Peter
53:51he's the one with the um
53:51oh
53:53oh
53:53come on kid
53:56Peter
53:58he uh
53:59I mean
54:01he's about to do something pretty bad
54:04and I know you let people
54:10but uh
54:11no
54:12he
54:13be with him
54:15please
54:16he needs you
54:21Pete
54:21Peter
54:26you okay
54:29please
54:32be with him
54:35no
54:36just
54:37be with him
54:38Lord
54:39he needs you
54:42he
54:43he needs you
54:46he needs you
54:49he needs you
55:02he needs you
55:16he needs you
55:18he needs you
55:19he needs you
55:20he needs you
55:21he needs you
55:22he needs you
55:23he needs you
55:24he needs you
55:25he needs you
55:26he needs you
55:27he needs you
55:28he needs you
55:29he needs you
55:30he needs you
55:31Thank you so much for the help, and I'm sorry I just can't tell you.
55:48Yeah, yeah, I've got it from here.
55:51Thanks.
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