The Believer Page #2

(pronounces badly) ''Und die Worte zerfieIen|in meinem Mund wie modrige...

..PiIser.

- PiIser?|- PiIze.

''And the words fell apart in my mouth|like mouldering mushrooms.''

(sighs)

A lot of these are in Spanish.

Yeah. My grandma's from Argentina.

My father's family went over during the war.

Where's your father now?

He's in a mental institution.

Was he a Nazi?

l don't know. We don't talk about that.

l don't think he cares about all that stuff|any more.

What's he care about?

Killing himself.

D'you think people ever commit suicide|out of happiness?

lt's stupid. Why would they do it|if they were happy?

You're not like the others, are you?

Like your friends.

Yes, l am.

Basically, l am.

Hurt me.

Just do it. Hurt me.

Ow! Not that hard!

Get up.

You have to go.

- What?|- (slaps)

(Lina) Curtis.

Bring the paper.

(door slams)

= Questa vita, non ha senso

= ImpossibiIe

Punk-ass!

= Questa vi... Questa vi...

= Questa vi... =

(woman's voice) Where d'you have it|last, Dad? Try to remember.

Sit down.

(TV) Thank you and congratuIations.

(teacher) ''..and offer him there|as a sacrifice...

..on a mountain that I wiII show you. ''

Everyone, what's reaIIy going on here?|ShIomo?

(boy) It was a test of Abraham's faith,|of his devotion to God.

Isaac wasn't his onIy son.|IshmaeI was his son, too.

- The onIy son he Ioved.|- Oh, they onIy kiII them if they Iove them(!)

Danny,|as usuaI you have something to add?

It's not about Abraham's faith.

It's about God's power.

God says ''You know how powerfuI I am?''

''I can make you do anything I want,|no matter how stupid. ''

''Even kiII your own son. ''

''Because I'm everything|and you're nothing. ''

OK, Danny, but if Hashem is everything|and we are nothing,...

..how then are we to judge His actions?

We have free wiII and inteIIigence,|which God aIIegedIy gave us.

What are you taIking about?|God never Iets Abraham kiII Isaac.

He gives him the ram|so he doesn't have to.

PersonaIIy, I think that's a Iie.

(teacher) You think? Based on what?

There's Midrash supporting it.|My father read a book by ShaIom SpiegeI,...

..that said Isaac died and was reborn.

No-one foIIows that Midrash.

I do! I foIIow it. But OK,|say God provided the ram. So what?

Once Abraham raised the knife,|it was as if he'd kiIIed him in his heart.

He couId never forget that|and neither couId Isaac.

He's traumatised.|He's a putz the rest of his Iife.

Danny, watch your Ianguage.

The whoIe Jewish peopIe were... (fades)

Danny! (she knocks on door)

(door opens)

(footsteps)

l knocked but you didn't hear me.

What are you doing?

He's gonna die.

He won't take his medicine and...

..he eats dairy. Probably still smokes|when l'm not around.

l asked him to move in with us.|lt was Alex's idea.

But he didn't wanna be any trouble.

Well,... then he couldn't be bitter|about living alone.

Why deprive him of his greatest pleasure?

Jesus Christ, Danny,|how can you wear that thing?

Linda, don't start.

Do you know what it means to your people?

- They're not my people.|- Yeah? Tell that to Hitler.

Oh, he decides?|Hitler's the chief rabbi now?

Why?

There's 50 reasons.

Even if you knew them all,|there'd be another 50 you didn't know.

Do you know them?

l made him some noodles. You can heat|them up and eat with him, if you want.

l can't. l gotta go.

You can heat them up and eat with him.

(sighs)

(father coughs)

(TV commentary)

lt's Friday.

Do l give a sh*t?

The Torah says you can't light a fire|on Shabbos cos it's work, correct?

Mm-hm.

But if alternating current is always running|through the wires and l turn a switch,...

..sending it here instead of there,|how is that lighting a fire?

Do chickens give milk?

Exactly.

(comedian on TV) The macho button|snapped back out...

Who's this?

lt's Denis Leary.

Funny?

Hm. Not like Uncle Mitch.

He was funny.

- Hello?|- DanieI BaIint?

Uh, this is Guy DanieIsen.

I'm a reporter and I'm doing a piece|on right-wing groups, post OkIahoma City.

A reporter for who?

Uh, Rolling Stone, Esquire, New York Times|and uh... I write for a Iot of pIaces.

- New York Times?|- Yeah.

Uh, Iisten.

- I hear you have a Iot of interesting ideas.|- Who toId you that?

Isn't it true?

(Danny) No.

Yeah. It's true.

How d'you get this number?

Danny.

- Hey. Guy Danielsen.|- You? You looked different at that meeting.

Well, you know...

So the other night, you said you thought|the modern world was a Jewish disease.

Can you elaborate on that a little bit?

Uh, in this racialist movement,|we believe there is a hierarchy of races.

You know, whites at the top,|blacks at the bottom,...

..Asians, Arabs, Latins,|somewhere in-between.

- Why are you writing if you're recording it?|- Helps me concentrate.

Uh, Danny,...

..what about the Jews?

Jews, Judaism,...

..it's like a sickness.

How is Judaism a sickness?

Take sexuality.

- Sexuality? What do you mean?|- Ever f*** a Jewish girl?

What?

Did you ever f*** one?

Well, yeah, l mean, l've been out with a...

There you go. What did you notice?

Like what?

Jewish girls love to give head.

Right?

- Yeah, sure.|- And Jewish men love to get it.

Everybody likes to get it.

Yes, it's very pleasurable, but Jews are|obsessed with it. You wanna know why?

Yes. Why?

Because a Jew's essentially female.

- Female.|- Yeah. Real men,...

..white, Christian men,...

..we f*** a woman.|We make her come with our c*cks!

But a Jew doesn't like to penetrate and|thrust. He can't assert himself in that way,...

..so he resorts to these perversions.

Oral sex is technically a perversion,|you know that, right?

- Yeah.|- So after a woman's had a Jewish man,...

..she's ruined. She never wants to be|with a normal partner again.

So the Jew's a better lover?

He's not better. That's not what l said.

l said he gives pleasure.|That's actually a weakness.

All right, so it's not that the Jew runs|the media, or that he owns all the banks,...

Look, the Jews clearly control the media|and the banks.

lnvestment banks, not the commercial ones,|but the point is,...

..they carry out in those realms the exact|same principles they display in sexuality.

They undermine traditional life|and they deracinate society.

Deracinate.

Tear out the roots.

A real people...

..derives its genius from the land,|from the sun, from the sea, from the soil.

This is how they know themselves.|But Jews don't even have soil.

- There's lsrael.|- Yeah. Those aren't Jews.

Of course they're Jews.

Notice the lsraelis.|lt's a fundamentally secular society.

They no longer need Judaism because|they have soil. The real Jew is a wanderer.

He's a nomad.|He's got no roots and no attachments...

..so he universalises everything.

He can't hammer a nail or plough a field.

All he can do is buy and sell|and invest capital, manipulate markets...

..and it's, like, all mental.

He takes the life of a people rooted in soil|and turns it into a cosmopolitan culture,...

..based on books and numbers and ideas.

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