“Sanctity of life,” you believe in it? Personally, I think it’s a bunch of shit. Well, I mean, life is sacred? Who said so? “God?” Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death. Has been for thousands of years. Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians, all taking turns killing each other ‘cause God told ‘em it was a good idea. The Sword of God, the Blood of the Lamb, Vengeance is Mine: millions of dead motherfuckers. Millions of dead motherfuckers all because they gave the wrong answer to the God question.
“You believe in God?”
“No.” Boomph. Dead.
“You believe in God?”
“Yes.”
“You believe in my God?”
“No.” Boomph. Dead.
“My God has a bigger dick than your God.”
Thousands of years, and all the best wars too. The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought all based on religious hatred, which is fine with me. Hey, anytime a bunch of holy people wanna kill each other I’m a happy guy. But don’t be giving me all this shit about the sanctity of life. I mean, even if there were such a thing I don’t think it’s something you can blame on God. No, you know where the sanctity of God came from? We made it up. You know why? ‘Cause we’re alive. Self interest. Living people have a strong interest in promoting the idea that somehow life is sacred. You don’t see Abbott and Costello runnin’ around talking about this shit, do ya? We’re not hearing a whole lot from Mussolini on the subject. What’s the latest from JFK? Not a goddamn thing. ‘Cause JFK, Mussolini and Abbott and Costello are fucking dead. They’re fucking dead. And dead people give less than a shit about the sanctity of life, only living people care about it, so the whole thing grows out of a completely biased point of view. It’s a self-serving, man-made, bullshit story.
It’s one of these things we tell ourselves so we’ll feel noble. “Life is sacred,” makes you feel noble. But let me ask you this, if everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die, where’s does the sacred part come in? I’m having trouble with that. ‘Cause I mean even with the stuff we preach about the sanctity of life we don’t practice it, we don’t practice it. Look at what we kill. Mosquitos and flies: because they’re pests. Lions and Tigers: ‘cause it’s fun. Chickens and pigs: ‘cause we’re hungry. Pheasants and Qualls: ‘cause it’s fun, and we’re hungry. And people, we kill people: because they’re pests, and it’s fun!
