George Carlin — "All you have to do is look at slavery, the Middle East, the Crusades, the Inquis…"
All you have to do is look at slavery, the Middle East, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Holocaust, and the World Trade Center, and you'll see how seriously the religious folks take 'Thou Shalt Not Kill.' The more devout they are, the more they see murder as negotiable...it's negotiable.
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American stand-up comedian whose 'Seven Words You Can't Say on Television' (1972) reached the Supreme Court and reshaped US obscenity law.
Closely associated with
Richard Pryor (countercultural-comedy peer) and Lenny Bruce (predecessor in obscenity-law fights).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Tipper Gore, co-founder of the Parents Music Resource Center — the PMRC's 1985 Senate hearings on 'explicit' content labeling are exactly the cultural-establishment force Carlin's free-speech comedy was organized against.
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Pointing out hypocrisy in religious adherence to commandments.