You Sound Like The Man

 

LONG RUFUS :

How you coping, kid? 

BETHANY :

It's weird. Just when I think I have a handle on things something wholly unbelievable presents itself. 

Sometimes I wish I'd just stayed home. 

LONG RUFUS :

You sound like The Man. 

BETHANY :

What's He like? 

LONG RUFUS :

He likes to listen to people talk. 

Christ loved to sit around the fire, listen to me and the other guys. 

Whenever we were going on about unimportant shit he always had a smile on his face. 

His only real beef with mankind... ...is the shit that gets carried out in His Name. 

Wars, bigotry, televangelism. 

The big one, though, is the factioning of all the religions. He said mankind got it all wrong by taking a good idea and building a belief structure on it. 

BETHANY :

You're saying having beliefs is a bad thing? 

LONG RUFUS :

I just think it's better to have ideas. 

You can change an idea. 

Changing a belief is trickier. 

People die for it. People kill for it. 

The whole of existence is in jeopardy right now because of the Catholic beliefs regarding this plenary-indulgence bullshit. 

Bartleby and Loki, whether they know it or not, are exploiting that belief, and if they're successful, you, me, all of this ends in a heartbeat. 

All over a belief.