Questions For You Non Believers

[Brakeman]

"Somewhere in the narrative I believe there is a core truth or wisdom that has been (possibly) irreparably garbled in transmission. The source of this core truth or wisdom may be anything, even the combined experiences of all that went into it's manufacture. I choose to believe that this source is god...and assigning to it whatever I can salvage out of the narrative as a whole is useful to me, it allows me to better myself in ways that I have deemed valuable to me. If this source were something other than a god (as I alluded to above) it would matter very little to me, as the truth and wisdom I endeavor to extract from the narrative is an issue of practical, not literal, concern.

I believe that christ's (if christ can be said to -at the very least- be the personification or anthropomorphism of all that we might value in ourselves) example can save me, essentially, from -myself-. From all of the things that might exist within me and devalue this thing I call my self, or soul. This example, like the narrative as a whole, may also have been garbled in transmission, and as such I reserve the right to gather unto me what I find useful and good, and discard that which I do not. "

Sounds like:

"I like to eat shit because occasionally there is a piece of sweet corn in it!"