[Music] [Music] I want to talk to you about this uh I got home from the show and at the end of the show as I've mentioned before we go out and we uh we talk to folks and you know sign an occasional autograph and shake hands and so on and there was one guy waiting over to the side in the um what I call the hover position after I was old on big guy probably about my age big guy and um he had been the um the guy who has uh picks the joke during our
psychic comedian section of the show uh so he had the props from that in his hand because we give those away he had the the joke book and the and the envelope and the paper and stuff if you haven't seen the live show up it's not worth explaining but he had props from the show that we'd given him from the night before uh he wasn't the guy that night and he walked over to me and he said um I was here last night at the show and uh uh I saw the show and I liked
it I wanted he was very complimentary about my use of language and um complimentary about you know honesty and stuff he said nice stuff no reason to go into it he said nice stuff and then he said I brought this for you and he handed me a uh Gideon Pocket Edition um I thought I it from the New Testament but I also thought it was Psalms from the New Testament right uh Psalms from the new just part of the New Testament little book about this big this thick you know he said I wrote in the
front of it and I wanted you to have this I'm kind of uh prizz and then he said I'm a businessman I'm I'm sayane I'm not crazy and he looked me right in the eye did all of this and uh it was really wonderful I believe he knew that I was an atheist but he was not uh defensive and he looked me right in the eyes and he was truly complimentary it wasn't any way it didn't seem like empty flattery he was really kind and nice and sane and looked me in the eyes and talked
to me and then gave me this Bible and I've always said you know that I I don't respect people who don't prostie I don't respect that at all if you believe that there's a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell or not getting eternal life or whatever and you think that uh well it's not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward and atheists who think that people shouldn't prosa tize just leave me alone keep your religion to yourself uh how much do you have to hate somebody to
not prosze how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that I mean if I believed beyond a shadow of a doubt that a truck was coming at you and you didn't believe it that truck was buried down on you there's a certain point where I tackle you and this is more important than that and I've always thought that and I've written about that I thought of it conceptually this guy was a really good guy he was polite and honest and sane and he cared enough
about me to prostie and give me a a Bible which had written in it a little note to me uh not very personal but just you know liked your show and so on and then like five phone numbers for him and an email address if I wanted to get in touch now I know there's no God and one polite person living his life right doesn't change that uh but I'll tell you he was a very very very good man and uh that's really important and with that kind of goodness uh it's okay to have that
deep of a disagreement I still think that religion does a lot of bad stuff but man that was a good man who gave me that book that's all I wanted to [Music] say [Music]
