Elmer Gantry
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1:22:01
Do you believe Jesus Christ
can give us life everlasting?

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- I'd love to believe it.
- But you don't?

1:22:11
No.
1:22:17
Then you don't accept
Jesus Christ as divine, do you?

1:22:31
Well?
1:22:35
Jesus was a great, virtuous teacher.
His faith and courage changed the worid.

1:22:40
Do you accept Jesus Christ as divine?
1:22:47
Let me say... I have doubts.
1:22:51
- That's blasphemy!
- Mr Babbitt, to doubt is not blasphemy.

1:22:55
When you say "blasphemy", you mean
"Don't dare disagree. Don't think."

1:22:59
"Don't doubt."
1:23:01
But Tolstoy, Darwin, Jefferson, Lincoln -
they had the same doubts.

1:23:06
Then they'll burn in hell, too!
1:23:10
Mr Eddington, in spite of
Mr Lefferts' confessed bigotry,

1:23:13
I defend your right to publish these
articles. But give us equal rights.

1:23:17
- Your reply'll be published prominently.
- Mr Eddington, I'm no writer.

1:23:21
Now, Jim is brilliant and witty.
Uses words like a stiletto.

1:23:24
He learned from Mencken, Ingersoll,
Sinclair Lewis, other atheists.

1:23:28
- Atheists!
- But you own a radio station.

1:23:30
Set the time. Half an hour.
Tonight? Tomorrow? Name it.

1:23:33
Every day for two weeks -
half-hour in the morning and evening.

1:23:37
- Just to answer this article?
- I don't intend to answer anything.

1:23:42
You don't debate the existence of God.
1:23:44
Jim, here, has spread
the poison of doubt and disbelief.

1:23:47
Just give me a chance to spread the
gospel, to raise the banner of Christianity,

1:23:52
to restore the faith he stole.
1:23:55
Now, sir, I realise time means money -
especially radio time.

1:23:58
Right.

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