Once you have somebody that is telling you, 'We are interpreting God for you,' it seems like you either agree or you don't. You either say, like Martin Luther, 'I'm going to have a direct relationship with the word of God,' or I''m going to go through a conduit of God on Earth,' which would be the Pope.
Penn JilletteThere is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.
Penn JilletteMy favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
Penn JilletteEven if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.
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