When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.
Penn JilletteJuggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
Penn JilletteReligion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.
Penn JilletteIf entertainment ran grocery stores, we'd NEVER get oil cured olives or blue cheese, it would be JUST Coke.
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