The point in presenting this classic piece of George Carlin is not to be irreligious. We live in a world with many assumptions and in presentation Carlin does quite a job in pulling the rug out from underneath one of the big ones, religion, something more that 90% of Americans believe in.

It strikes me as perhaps the best example where he challenges one of people's biggest Sacred Cows and with a ruthless and at times offensive logic rips it to shreds.

He offends me at times as he offended many others, a class clown who would fire 'booger spitballs,' at the teacher. His disparagement of voting, for example, made me want to strange him barehanded.

This is what he did to many of us. He provoked us, he challenged us, got under our skin with ideas that were acerbic, language foul, and a scathing disparagement of the status quo or sacred cows.

We need this at time because we do live often live in 'bubble of illusion.' We wake up with a big world view in our heads, great big concepts, big missions and crusades, but sometimes it's good to have all those mental assumptions washed away.

I read of a man injured in a car wreck and spend 35 years quadriplegic. Just before he died he said that all that remained of love and ambition was a desire for fried potatoes.

Life, without all the hype, has really simple needs and pleasures.

When I recover from Carlin's shotgun blasts of humor I think to myself: "Well, that was a pretty good shot."

Then we can pick ourselves up off the floor and begin again, shake it off, keep playing the game. There is a value in all this, all this creation all this destruction all this rebuilding again.

He has skits about White People, Saving the Planet, Global Warming, Moder Man, The Last Days of America and, of course, his early famous skit about "Stuff." Something to offend everyone.

Somethings to make us laught. Carlin's YouTube page is, here.

There are some characters noted for not being nice. Not in a big cruel dictator way but in personal human terms, in terms of how one lives one's individual life, our attitudes, our ideas.

Don Giovanni in the opera by Mozart, and in the Don Juan legend, for example, this person is not considered to be a nice man.

He a womanizer, a rapist,  seduces woman by disguise or false promises of marriage, fights their past lovers, kills one of their fathers, arrogantly flouts the most basic social conventions.

He lives wicked and he dies wicked.

George Carlin, who died this week, also had his flaws, although certainly not on any scale or comparison to the real legend of Don Juan.

But if Don Giovanni was a misogynist, George Carlin was certainly a misanthrope.

If you hold mainstream values sacred or look at all the world in stern seriousness than Carlin is bound to 'rock your boat,' and burst the bubble of our illusions.

This embedded video here: Religion is bull*hit, is one ofhis most views and highly rated. For someone raised Irish-Catholic it certainly is most rebellious, about as complete a denunciation of faith you could expect.

He was an angry man, but also a funny one. He made people laugh and although efforts were made to shut him up nobody wanted to burn his at the stake.  This is America. He had a right to say what he wanted, as we all do (except encouraging violence or hate).

Many were willing to cringe as they saw all their sacred cows trashed and the foibles of human nature flagellated in front of our faces: God, religion, America, the American Dream, politics, censorship, stupidity and anything else available.

It reminds me of the joke about an Irishman, a sailor who was in a shipwreck, drifted for weeks hanging onto a broken mast and finally landed in a unknown country.

When the Irishman met his first person in this new land he asked:"What type of government do you have here? Because I want you to know I'm against it."

It sounds like a joke Carlin might have enjoy himself.

His other noted skit was: The Seven Dirty Words you can't say on radio or television."

He did a voice over on the cartoon show South Park about these infamous Seven Dirty Words. It's not so raw as his original skit but he does get down to the bone. It can be found, here.

The lyrics of the original Seven Dirty Word's skit are, here.

We still can't say these Seven Dirty Words on radio or TV.

There is, apparently, still some 'polite social restraint,' in our daily chat.

And there will always be a George Carlin or someone like him to make fun of it all and "nail it," as he sees it, whether we like it or not.