True Detective - Rust talks about Religion - "What's the IQ of these people?"

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Viral ministry old-time religion you can

imagine what Mr. charisma thought of

that really the average IQ of this group

is huh

Can you see Texas up there on your high

horse what do you know about these

people this table observation and

deduction see a propensity for obesity

poverty a yen for fairy tales

tokes put in what few bucks they do

having a little wicker baskets being

passed around. I think it's safe to say

that nobody here's gonna be splitting

the atom Marnie. You see that your fuckin

attitude, not everybody wants to sit

alone in an empty room beating off to

murder manual some folks enjoy the community,

common good. Man what're the common goods

got to make up fairy tales and it's not

good for anybody your sister Rose pin

you to this place they divide you from

what your heart knows and there are a

lot of good hearts out there I'm looking

out that I'm seeing a lot of good hearts

out there I see a lot of joy idea I mean

can you imagine if people didn't believe

what things they get up to exact same

thing they do now just out in the open

bull shit there could be a fucking freak

show of murder and debauchery and you

know what if the only thing keeping a

person decent is the expectation of

divine reward then brother that person

is a piece of shit and I'd like to get

as many of mountainy open as possible I

guess your judgment is infallible piece

of shit wise you-you think that notebook

is a stone tablet

what to save my life hmm you got to get

together

tell yourself story that violate every

law the universe just get through the

goddamn day

I said say that your reality Morty and

you get to talking like this sound

panicked you figure it's all scam huh

mmm all them folks mmm-hmm they just

roll oh yeah been that way since one

monkey looked at the Sun told the other

monkey he said for you to give me your

fucking share people so goddamn frail

they'd rather put a coin in a wishing

well and buy dinner

Jesus Christ Jesus Christ your arms open

and closed the echoes of my life could

never contain to see his truth about you

you move the feather in the ash you

touch the leaf with its flame

transference of fear and self-loathing

to an authoritarian vessel its catharsis

he absorbs their dread with his

narrative because of this he's effective

in proportion to the amount of certainty

he can project

certain linguistic anthropologists think

that religion is a language virus that

rewrites pathways in the brain

dulls critical thinking well I don't use

$10 words as much as you but for a guy

who sees no point in existence you sure

fret about it an awful lot then you

still sound panicked at least I'm not

racing to a red light too.