Just discovered “Crashing” on HBO. Semi-autobiographical, dude grew up in Sunday School and church, Christian College, but wanted to be a comic. Still a believer, but being produced by Judd Apatow. This is how it can be:

“And I started actually listening to my heart, listening to my intuition and wondering what it was that I really believed.

“Part of the process was seeing the rich and true morality of my atheist friends. … I went from a lot of Christian friends to almost exclusively atheist friends. And I remember — this isn’t that crazy of a story, but it was huge to me — I was on the road with a couple of comedians, one of them was T.J. [Miller], and they were both atheists and we’re in this hotel and it had one of those mini-marts … but they’re always unattended. And [I] just said to them, ‘No one’s here. If there’s no God, why don’t … I just take these M&Ms?’

“And T.J. was like, ‘Because we’re doing it for one another. It’s not to please some god somewhere else who’s mad when you steal M&Ms; you’re doing it so the woman who is not at the counter doesn’t get fired when they count the M&Ms and count the cash.’

“I started to see that you didn’t need a fear model to be beautifully compassionate and kind to one another.”

Listen to the whole interview on NPR’s Fresh Air.

And/or watch this:

 

 
Cheers,
BuFoon Steve Gillard