This story is critical of the kind of brain-washing, the kind of creation of blind followers, that religion causes...that most religion causes. (Many references to blind following in "authority/obedience model religions").

And if you're willing to settle, out of fear, for any kind of garbage, whether it's the fundamentalist Islamic kind, the fundamentalist Christian kind, the George Bush variety, the Osama Bin Laden variety, the Adolf Hitler variety, the Mussolini variety, the Genghis Khan variety---that's your fault. If you are willing to listen to someone's lies, and not examine it for yourself, [unintelligible] transformation model ideas, accept nothing you cannot decide for yourself, accept nothing you cannot prove for yourself, yes, and rely on nothing outside yourself, if you simply take somebody else's word for it, then you are very much responsible for that....The number one criticism of the transformation model of the authority/obedience model is this: that the authority/obedience model turns people into pod people, turns people into blind, believing robots, who not only do not question themselves, but they do not question their masters, they do not question life. They are people who are basically cowards. They have allowed their fear to rule over them so much, that they just accept whatever the Pope tells them, or whatever their Christian minister, or their priest tells them, or their imam tells them, or their Hindu priest, or whomever is telling them that. They don't try to live life at the front lines. They let someone else taste for them.

It's a very interesting question to ask: Gee, why is it, that the Western religions, Christianity being the most murderous religion by far, by far, and second Islam, being the second most murderous religion in history...

In fact, that's the primary concern about where the Third World War is going to come from, between the Christian fundamentalists and the Muslim fundamentalists. Because the Christian fundamentalists are scarey from my point of view because they want Armageddon. They want atomic warfare. Their ready for the end of the world. They want to be jumped up into heaven so that they can laugh at all the rest of us scumbags who are going to be down here suffering. And they are arrogant enough to believe that's going to happen. And if you're arrogant enough to believe that's going to happen, then you are arrogant enough to try to elect a President who is going to bring it on---and I do mean bring it on. You remember the phrase "bring it on"? Yes? That's scarey stuff, that's quite scarey stuff, at least from my point of view it is.