21 April 2008

John Oliver, I Want to Have Your British Children

I watched John Oliver's stand-up special, "Terrifying Times," last night. If you don't know, John Oliver is the British correspondent from The Daily Show. Now, I've been restricting my religious posts lately, but this quote was just too perfect to pass up.
"I started looking into these groups in America, campaign groups, who wanted to put stickers on the front of all school sciecne textbooks explaining that evolution is only one possible theory of life on Earth. Now while this seems like a stupid idea at first, second, and thirty-ninth glance, look at it once more. Give it that fortieth view. Because it's brilliant. Let's have stickers on the front of all books. Slap one on the Bible saying Of course, this could all be bullshit. Maybe he never died. Perhaps he opened a donkey factory. He had a clear bond with donkeys. Or slap one on the front of the theory of gravity: Look it's just one man's opinion. Maybe we can all fly! R Kelley believed it so. Why would he lie to us? What does he possibly stand to gain?"

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