Matt-Harriet Argument Montage
[Starts in present day, as Matt sees Harriet praying.]
Matt: Does that ever just feel like busy work?
Harriet: No.
Matt: We’ve been having this fight for eight years, haven’t we.
Harriet: Yes, and you’ve lost every time.
Matt: Mary Tate is upstairs talking to people on the phone who do things, and you’re kneeling and praying as if that’s action.
Harriet: It is.
Matt: Harry –
Harriet: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray [switch to start-of-war flashback] then I will hear them from heaven and forgive their sins and will heal their land.”
Matt: You are believing in a fairy tale.
Harriet: I’m believing that God protects his children.
Matt: Then why the hell didn’t he give the hijackers massive coronaries before they reached for the box cutters?
Harriet: I can’t explain God’s ways to you because I can’t understand them myself. No one can.
Matt: Well, isn’t that convenient for God. [switch to unspecified past time]
Harriet: I’d imagine if I were God, I’d make things as convenient for myself as possible.
Matt: Do you realize that this represents an inexplicable lapse of common sense?
Harriet: It’s not a weakness to have faith. [switch]
Matt: It’s not a weakness to take responsibility either.
Harriet: I don’t disapprove of what you believe.
Matt: You think I’m going to burn in hell for what I believe.
Harriet: Yeah, I do worry about that. [switch]
Matt: The boat saved him.
Harriet: God sent the boat.
Matt: Man built the boat. If anything, God sent the flood. [switch] Isn’t it possible that Mary got pregnant by another man and Joseph stepped up so that his wife wouldn’t get stoned to death by the village.
Harriet: No.
Matt: It’s more likely that an angel inseminated her and she gave birth to a magical wizard who could rise from the dead.
Harriet: He’s not David Copperfield. [switch]
Matt: Why do you have to believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ to know that robbing a bank is wrong and picking someone off the ground is right?
Harriet: That’s like asking why you think you need to believe in gravity to know that if you throw a rock off a ledge, it’s going to hit somebody in the head. [switch]
Matt: Science isn’t something you believe in. Science has to be proven, or they don’t get to call it science. [switch]
Harriet: What would be great is if you knew something about Christians before you start –
Matt: It’s a fairy tale!
Harriet: No, it’s not! [switch]
Matt: We’ve been having this fight for six months! [switch]
Harriet: We’ve been having this fight for two years! [switch]
Matt: We have been having this fight in two different millennia now! [switch back to present] You really would have thought one of us would have won by this point.
Harriet: Oh, Matt. I just love you, is all. It’s okay that you’re a heathen.
Matt: Well, I appreciate that.
Harriet: Come pray with me? I’ll show you how. You’ll learn something new.
Matt: (cell phone rings — saved by the bell!) Hello? … What’s going on?
Harriet: What is it?
Matt: All right, I’m on my way over. (hangs up) Jordan’s having an emergency C-section.
Harriet: We’ll take my car.
(They walk out through the party and to the front entrance. Matt pauses for a moment, laughs under his breath, looks up, and hits his chest.)
Matt: Show me something.
Fuente: http://www.watchingstudio60.com/kr-p...morable-lines/