zodiac10 Oct 2005

By whom are people built to have faith? You're doing the "purpose of species" thing again.

People have faith because of the following:

BIFF: Why does the sun go up and down?
CLARK: I dunno.
BIFF: Maybe somebody's making it move?
CLARK: Sure, but who?
BIFF: I dunno. Big guy, I guess. Invisible.
CLARK: Man, I'd hate to piss him off. Probably drop the sun on my head if I did.
BIFF: That reminds me of when my mom got a mammoth dropped on her head. Dang, I wish death didn't suck so bad!
CLARK: Yeah, but it does, though, doesn't it?
BIFF [musingly]: But maybe not... I bet if anyone could improve death, the Big Sun Guy could!
CLARK: Yeah, but your mom's dead. We ate her.
BIFF: Not if she had some invisible lifeforce that superexisted her body! Like, I dunno, a soul, I guess.
CLARK: What the fuck are you talking about?
BIFF: The soul. The source of your morality, stupid!
CLARK [clubbing Biff to death]: What morality? [Then,] Oh crap! Biff's dad's gonna kill me to protect his family interests! What the fuck?
BIFF'S DAD: Big Sun Guy's gonna kill your ass!
CLARK: No, no! Wait! Big Sun Guy teaches tolerance and forgiveness of sins!
BIFF'S DAD: Really? Isn't that kind of pussy-like?
CLARK: You can't call Big Sun Guy pussy-like, he'll kill your ass.
BIFF'S DAD: Oh, right. My bad.

[And so on. Ad infinitum, amen.]