- 23/05/2023
Lionel Baillemont's play freely adapted from novels by Donatien Alphonse François de SADE: « Philosophy in the boudoir (1795), Juliette (1801),
Justine (1797) et Cahiers Personnels (1803) ».
In the 18th century, the refusal of God had to be fought for brutally, using the limitless power of language to explode all of the prisons of mankind.
Atheism, like libertinism, was held up in the name of human freedom. Actor english version (2020) Felix LAUBE.
English translation: Pieralessandro Casavini (1965).
©2020 contact@opheliafilm.com
Justine (1797) et Cahiers Personnels (1803) ».
In the 18th century, the refusal of God had to be fought for brutally, using the limitless power of language to explode all of the prisons of mankind.
Atheism, like libertinism, was held up in the name of human freedom. Actor english version (2020) Felix LAUBE.
English translation: Pieralessandro Casavini (1965).
©2020 contact@opheliafilm.com
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00:00 [Music]
00:26 Primitive man.
00:30 Primitive man.
00:34 Terrified
00:38 by the phenomena
00:42 which hurried him.
00:51 Hadn't necessarily to believe that a sublime had the direction of their operation.
00:57 The human mind.
01:05 The human mind
01:11 then, too much in its infancy,
01:17 to discover in nature's depth the laws of motion,
01:21 found it simpler, found it simpler
01:25 to fancy a motor in this nature,
01:33 rather than to view nature as her own mover.
01:37 Without considering that it would have to go to more trouble
01:43 to define this master, rather than
01:47 searching through nature the cause of what amazed him,
01:51 he acknowledged this sovereign being
01:57 and elaborated rituals to worship him.
02:01 It has been asserted that belief in eternal punishment
02:11 is necessary if human beings are to be kept in check.
02:15 Tirelessly they feel, I hear, that even if it were a large fib,
02:23 it would still have its advantages, as it would keep men browbeaten
02:27 on the path of virtue.
02:31 I dare say, to the contrary,
02:37 it is only successful in rendering them insane,
02:41 wicked, despondent, irritable.
02:45 Daily experience gives us, does it not,
02:50 plentiful and convincing proof of the slight effect
02:55 the fear of punishment has upon those people who believe most staunchly in them.
03:02 Where does one find more secret crimes committed than among priests and monks?
03:07 Where does one find more secret crimes committed
03:12 than among priests and monks?
03:17 That is, those people who you would think
03:22 were the most thoroughly penetrated with religious truth.
03:27 [Pause]
03:30 If they who are instructed to rule over men
03:46 had wisdom and virtue themselves,
03:50 realities and not fantasies,
03:54 it would enable them to govern better.
03:57 But scoundrels, quack-salvers,
04:02 ambitious ruffians,
04:07 or low-sneaks,
04:13 the law-givers, have ever found it easier to allow nations to sleep
04:21 than to teach truth to the public.
04:25 But the service it were possible to render humankind
04:33 would have been to cut off the head of the first imbecile
04:36 who took it into his head to speak of God to men.
04:39 How much blood's spared in the universe!
04:50 [Pause]
04:53 I think it is only too obvious that under the conditions
04:59 alleged to be necessary to salvation,
05:01 we are far more likely to be damned than saved.
05:04 So tell me then, is this your God so loudly vowed to justice
05:08 to have placed this puny, miserable masterpiece in such a position?
05:11 If it comes out that the fate of the greatest share of mankind
05:14 is to be eternally unhappy,
05:16 an all-knowing God must have known this from the outset.
05:19 Why then did the monster create us?
05:21 God was under no obligation to do so, certainly not...
05:24 And if he did so simply to push man into such a fate,
05:26 it becomes the foulest of all crimes.
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06:10 To allude to the force of this argument,
06:16 the partisans of the dogma of eternal damnation affirm that
06:22 the sore affliction of the rubber bait
06:26 is not arbitrary punishment on God's part.
06:32 No, it's the natural consequence of sin
06:37 and the natural order of things.
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07:03 Indeed, who told you so?
07:15 If you claim this to be a teaching out of scripture,
07:19 you'll have an awkward time proving it.
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07:30 And if you manage to pass across the single passage
07:36 which seems to go in your direction,
07:39 oh, the length you will have to go to
07:43 in order to convince me of the
07:46 accuracy, holiness
07:54 of these few lines,
07:57 which seem to you as though they go in your direction.
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08:49 Oh, miss!
09:00 Sorry!
09:02 Oh, miss!
09:09 Answer.
09:15 Would someone
09:17 for the loving kindness plant in his garden a tree
09:20 which produces delicious but poisonous fruit?
09:24 And would he be content
09:29 to warn his children not to eat
09:32 thereof they die?
09:35 Were he aware of
09:40 such a tree growing in his garden?
09:44 Will not this thoughtful and wise father
09:48 proceed without delay to chop it down?
09:51 And all the more surely do so
09:55 in the knowledge that from eating its dread fruit
09:59 his children must perish
10:01 and precipitate all ensuring generations
10:04 into irreparable misery.
10:11 But God knows that man shall doom himself
10:15 and his posterity
10:17 if he bites into the apple.
10:20 His wickedness does not stop short of
10:25 arranging man's seduction.
10:28 He does what God has pushed him into doing,
10:32 what God has enabled him to do.
10:36 [Music]
10:39 And behold him now,
10:47 fallen and cursed forever.
10:50 I call this cruelty without parallel.
10:55 If...
10:58 [Music]
11:06 If you insist upon having God
11:09 as the basis for your religion,
11:12 at least endeavour to impose a flawless God.
11:17 If not, every right-thinking and decent person
11:22 finding it a great deal simpler
11:25 not to believe in God at all,
11:28 rather than to acknowledge one so cruel
11:35 so inconsistent,
11:37 so barbaric
11:40 as to have created man
11:43 simply in order to sink him
11:47 into perpetual misfortune,
11:50 grief and anguish.
11:53 [Music]
11:57 May I?
12:02 [Music]
12:05 For it is of infinitely greater importance
12:13 to achieve happiness in this life
12:17 whereof we are sure
12:20 and to forego the joys offered us here and now
12:27 for imaginary ones
12:32 of which we are not
12:35 and cannot possibly have
12:38 the faintest idea.
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12:46 Ask a Christian.
13:12 That is to say, an imbecile,
13:14 because it belongs only to an imbecile
13:18 to be a Christian.
13:20 Ask them,
13:23 "What is the origin of the world?"
13:28 They will answer that it is God
13:32 who created the universe.
13:39 Ask them now what God is.
13:42 They do not know.
13:44 What it means to create a universe,
13:48 they have no idea.
13:51 Ask them about the origins of
13:59 plagues, wars,
14:02 droughts, famines,
14:07 earthquakes.
14:09 They will tell you that it is the wrath of God.
14:15 Ha ha!
14:17 But what can we do in the face of so many evils?
14:25 They will answer with prayers,
14:31 processions,
14:33 offerings,
14:35 sacrifices.
14:38 But also,
14:44 why heaven is angry with men?
14:49 It's because men are mean.
14:53 But why are they mean?
14:56 It's because of their corrupt nature.
15:03 But what is the cause of this corruption?
15:08 It's because the first man,
15:23 seduced by the first woman,
15:26 ate an apple
15:28 which his God had forbidden him to touch.
15:33 But what made a woman so stupid?
15:37 It's the devil!
15:44 But who created the devil?
15:50 It's God.
15:54 But why did God create a devil
15:58 meant to pervert the human race?
16:02 Again, they reply they haven't got the faintest idea.
16:11 See ya.
16:14 [slurps]
16:16 Mmm.
16:19 [music stops]
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16:25 [thud]
16:27 [scratch]
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16:39 [thud]
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16:55 Within this hypothesis,
17:13 I ask whether the rule,
17:18 the law,
17:20 the will,
17:22 whereby God supervises beings,
17:26 is of the same nature
17:29 as our mortal will and power.
17:51 Whether, in the same circumstances,
17:56 God can want and not want.
18:01 Whether the same thing can please and displease him.
18:11 [sniff]
18:14 [thud]
18:16 [crunch]
18:18 [crunch]
18:24 [crunch]
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18:44 If this be so, his function is merely executive.
18:54 He follows instructions and is no longer autonomous.
19:02 He has no power of his own.
19:11 [crunch]
19:13 [thud]
19:15 If, on the other hand,
19:21 God can change his sentiments and his will,
19:26 I wish to know why he does so.
19:32 Certainly he must have some motive for changing them.
19:36 For God to outstrip us in wisdom.
19:41 [thud]
19:44 I'll go further.
19:53 If God knows beforehand that he shall change his mind and his will,
20:04 why then, since the omnipotent can do anything,
20:08 has he not arranged circumstances
20:13 in order to obviate the need for this mutation?
20:18 [crunch]
20:24 [thud]
20:26 [thud]
20:28 [crunch]
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20:33 And if he doesn't know what's coming next,
20:37 what kind of omniscient God it is
20:42 who cannot foresee what he's going to have to do next?
20:47 If God is not free,
20:52 [crunch]
20:54 [crunch]
20:59 then he amounts to something like destiny or chance,
21:03 which vows don't touch,
21:07 nor prayers melt,
21:10 nor sacrifices appease,
21:15 and which you'd better hold in contempt forever
21:19 rather than beseech with such little success.
21:23 [crunch]
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21:35 [crunch]
21:38 Open Ecclesiastes 3, 19-20.
21:44 Here is what I see.
21:50 For that which befelleth the sons of men,
21:54 the fallest beasts, as the one dies, so dies the other.
21:59 Yea, they have all one breath.
22:02 So that a man hath no preeminence above a beast,
22:06 all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
22:11 What could be of greater encouragement
22:17 to the view that denies the mortality of the soul
22:22 and contests the whole ridiculous dogma of a hell?
22:27 The one who feeds, drinks, reproduces like beasts,
22:42 whose soul's superiority over them resides in a somewhat more refined instinct.
22:51 This same creature is able to expect a fate so unlike any of those same beasts.
22:56 But hold, they protest.
23:03 Man has achieved the sublime awareness of his God.
23:08 This in itself betokes of the immortality he dreams of.
23:14 O poor wretch!
23:19 If thou hast some advantage over animals,
23:23 how many are there advantages over thee?
23:26 Art thou not susceptible to a hundred times as many diseases and infirmities?
23:33 Art thou not the victim of a hundred times as many passions?
23:41 And this slight advantage you accord him,
23:48 is it so great as to warrant his proud notion
23:53 that he is due to eternally outlive his four-footed brethren?
23:58 O pitiful humanity!
24:02 Look to what length of folly thou hast been urged by thine own inflated self-esteem.
24:10 [PAUSE]
24:32 What person can possibly be absurd enough
24:36 to the point of believing that man is free?
24:40 I ask to begin with,
24:44 whether we are allowed to exercise any choice as to the climate we are born in.
24:50 Who can be blind enough to the point of not seeing
24:59 that our will, having nothing to do with our actions,
25:05 our actions being determined for us,
25:09 we are responsible for none of them?
25:12 [PAUSE]
25:31 Is there really anything more extraordinary than this superiority to animals
25:38 which humans arrogate to themselves?
25:41 Ask them upon what basis their superiority rests.
25:46 We have a soul.
25:49 Oh, that's their silly response.
25:51 Ask them what they mean by this word, soul.
25:59 Oh, it's passing strange, a mystery.
26:08 It's stupid that they are.
26:11 If all these problems are mysteries, they understand nothing about them.
26:14 And if they understand nothing about them,
26:16 how can they make an affirmative decision based upon the coexistence
26:20 of what they are incapable of conceiving?
26:23 [PAUSE]
26:50 I'll tell you that I'm not aware of having any soul.
26:54 That I am acquainted and feel nothing but my body,
27:04 which it is, my body which feels,
27:10 which judges,
27:14 which thinks,
27:19 which suffers,
27:22 which enjoys.
27:26 When I die,
27:34 the human frame is no more than an inert mass,
27:40 unable to produce those movements
27:44 which collectively constituted its life.
27:51 The dead body,
27:59 neither circulation,
28:02 nor respiration,
28:06 nor digestion,
28:12 nor locution,
28:14 nor intellection,
28:18 are any longer there.
28:22 [PAUSE]
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28:31 [PAPER RUSTLING]
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28:51 We smile at the naivety of those people
28:56 who have the custom of burying provisions and vitals alongside corpses.
29:07 Is it more far-fetched to believe men will eat after death
29:14 than to think,
29:18 than to fancy
29:21 they'll eat, amuse themselves,
29:25 be glad or heavy of heart,
29:32 when once the very organs required for transmitting and receiving sensations and ideas
29:39 will have crumbled to bits,
29:44 and those bits crumble to dust?
29:49 [SCOFFS]
29:55 Certain Church Fathers maintain that Jesus descended into hell.
30:01 [PAPER RUSTLING]
30:08 [SIGHS]
30:09 However, research fails to discover, either in the Hebrew or Latin or Greek versions,
30:20 a single word designating hell in its traditionally accepted version,
30:27 that is, a place reserved for the torture of sinners.
30:31 [PAPER RUSTLING]
30:40 Scholarship nevertheless discloses that near Jerusalem there was a place known as
30:46 the Valley of Gehinnah,
30:49 where
30:54 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
31:00 where criminals were put to death, and into which the corpses of animals were thrown also.
31:07 [SCOFFS]
31:09 It is to this place Jesus refers to in his allegories, when he says,
31:14 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
31:19 "Il y aura des pleurs et des grincements de dents."
31:22 "There will be a veil of tears."
31:25 This was a
31:29 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
31:33 And there appears to be no doubt that it is to Gehinnah
31:37 he is alluding to in his parables, in his unintelligible speeches.
31:42 [PAPER RUSTLING]
31:49 Our belief receives further confirmation from the fact that
31:52 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
31:55 "There the guilty were burnt alive."
31:58 Ah, there we have the fire, the torture whereof the Galileans spoke.
32:06 So, shea-faced rebel, own that this gigantic, grisly dogma of yours is utterly baseless, all made up,
32:13 that it is the product of your unhinged mentalities.
32:18 But no.
32:19 In order to elude these difficulties, other theologians assure us that
32:27 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
32:31 Hellfire is not tangible at all, no.
32:34 According to them, it is
32:37 spiritual.
32:39 Perhaps you will be good enough to tell me what is
32:43 [LAUGHS]
32:46 an immaterial, incorporeal, non-substantial sort of fire.
32:53 Again, however, we find a few doctors who, hunting for a happy medium,
33:07 assert that
33:09 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
33:13 This fire is partly spiritual, partly material,
33:17 which gives us, overhauled, two different sorts of fires in Hell.
33:21 What devices this superstition are driven to resort to,
33:25 as it constructs its sand castles of falsehood.
33:42 Some theologians claim that the pagans acknowledged the dogma of Hell.
33:46 Well, and supposing that they did,
33:50 we who reject their religion,
33:53 must we not reject their dogmas as well?
33:57 But it is very certain that the pagans never believed in an afterlife of everlasting suffering,
34:08 nor in the pathetic claptrap of the resurrection of bodies,
34:13 which they burnt in pyres,
34:16 and whose ashes they preserved in urns.
34:21 They did believe, however, in metempsychosis,
34:27 that is, in the transmigration of bodies,
34:32 ideas for which there is a great deal to be said,
34:37 which natural studies repeatedly confirm.
34:40 And so we conclude that
34:48 the plural dogma of a Hell is the fruit of the diseased imaginations of priests,
34:57 of, that is, those personages who comprise the vilest and most mischievous class in society,
35:07 who began by fabricating a dreary, disgusting god in their own image,
35:13 in order for this loathsome dummy to repeat what sought it best with their own interests,
35:20 and above all, which was most likely to procure them with whores or money,
35:28 the sole object ambitioned by that crew of social outcasts,
35:34 which society would be wonderfully well advised to rid itself definitively...
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