Quentin and "you know who"
If Quentin was asked if he believed in God, and he was with someone who he knew wouldn't take offence he simply replied "No"
However during one of his stage shows while in New Orleans he gave what was probably his longest and most involved response when asked this question.
Do you believe in God?
Quentin :
"Well now the last time you know you was mentioned I began by saying I wouldn't like to say anything which would give offence, and someone in the audience said, 'why stop now'.
But this is still something that worries me so if at any moment anyone finds anything I say offensive they have only to jump up and down and make a scene and we will stop.
I believe like most people not that which logic can convince me but what my nature inclines me believe. This is so with nearly everybody. I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer as peticine. It does not seem to me to be sufficiently humble to imagine that whatever force keeps the planets turning in the heavens is going to stop what its doing to give me a bicycle with 3 speeds.
But if God is the universe which encloses the universe? Or if God is the cell within the cell? Or if God is the cause behind the cause? Then this I accept absolutely. And if prayer is a way of aligning your body with the forces that flow through the universe? Then prayer I accept.
But there is a worrying aspect about the idea of God. Like witch craft or the signs of the zodiac or any of these other things the burden is placed elsewhere. This is what I don't like. You see to me you are the heroes of this hour. I do not think the earth was ever meant to be your home. I do not see the sky as a canopy held over your heads by cherubs or see the ground as a carpet laid at your feet.
You used to live an easy lying down life in the sea. But your curiosity and your courage prompted you to lift your head out of the sea, and gasp this fierce element in which we live. They are seated on Mars with their little green arms folded saying 'we can be reasonably certain there is no life on earth, because there the atmosphere is oxygen, which is so harsh it corrupts metal'. But you learned to breath it.
Further more you crawled out of the sea, and you walked up and down the beach for centuries until your thigh bones where thick enough to walk on land. It was a mistake but you did it.
Once you have this view of your past, not that it was handed to you but that you did it then your view of the future will change. This terror you have of the atom bomb will pass. Something will arise which will breath radiation. You learned to breathe oxygen. So you don't have to worry.
Don't keep looking into the sky to see what is happening, embrace the future. All you have to do about the future is what you did about the past. Rely on your curiosity and your courage and ride through the night."
However during one of his stage shows while in New Orleans he gave what was probably his longest and most involved response when asked this question.
Do you believe in God?
Quentin :
"Well now the last time you know you was mentioned I began by saying I wouldn't like to say anything which would give offence, and someone in the audience said, 'why stop now'.
But this is still something that worries me so if at any moment anyone finds anything I say offensive they have only to jump up and down and make a scene and we will stop.
I believe like most people not that which logic can convince me but what my nature inclines me believe. This is so with nearly everybody. I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer as peticine. It does not seem to me to be sufficiently humble to imagine that whatever force keeps the planets turning in the heavens is going to stop what its doing to give me a bicycle with 3 speeds.
But if God is the universe which encloses the universe? Or if God is the cell within the cell? Or if God is the cause behind the cause? Then this I accept absolutely. And if prayer is a way of aligning your body with the forces that flow through the universe? Then prayer I accept.
But there is a worrying aspect about the idea of God. Like witch craft or the signs of the zodiac or any of these other things the burden is placed elsewhere. This is what I don't like. You see to me you are the heroes of this hour. I do not think the earth was ever meant to be your home. I do not see the sky as a canopy held over your heads by cherubs or see the ground as a carpet laid at your feet.
You used to live an easy lying down life in the sea. But your curiosity and your courage prompted you to lift your head out of the sea, and gasp this fierce element in which we live. They are seated on Mars with their little green arms folded saying 'we can be reasonably certain there is no life on earth, because there the atmosphere is oxygen, which is so harsh it corrupts metal'. But you learned to breath it.
Further more you crawled out of the sea, and you walked up and down the beach for centuries until your thigh bones where thick enough to walk on land. It was a mistake but you did it.
Once you have this view of your past, not that it was handed to you but that you did it then your view of the future will change. This terror you have of the atom bomb will pass. Something will arise which will breath radiation. You learned to breathe oxygen. So you don't have to worry.
Don't keep looking into the sky to see what is happening, embrace the future. All you have to do about the future is what you did about the past. Rely on your curiosity and your courage and ride through the night."