“How Did You Lose Your Religion?” – Ricky Gervais @ Big Think. — Subscribe to Science and Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Question: How did you lose your religion? Ricky Gervais: Well, I love I love Jesus. You know, I believed in God. I think, my mom wanted me to. I think, for a working class woman, whos rushed off her feet, you know, the most she can hope for is the their son dont so they dont get killed in a bar room fight. And Jesus, I suppose, is an invisible, free babysitter, you know. If I cant see you, someones watching you. Which is obviously misplace. Very sweet, you know, but misplaced. And I was about 8 and I was I was doing something from the Bible and my brother came in, he was older than me, his name is Bob, still is, and he was about 19, and he said, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘I’m doing this for Jesus, God’. He said, ‘Why do you believe in God?’ And my mom went, ‘Bob!’, and I knew you. I knew then that she was hiding something from me and he was he was telling the truth. And I thought about it. And I was a bit of a scientist even then. You know, I could read really well by the time I was 3. I suppose I was a bit of an experiment cause I was the youngest by 11 years, you know. And I was into science and nature and I suppose I was a logical person. And I thought Yeah. But I learn it through body language. I learn it through that human [interplay] between this two people. The one was worried about what the other one was …
May 192010