Conversation Between a Forensic Scientist and a Priest

I just remembered this one from an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation:

Grissom: "We both have jobs that begin after the crime."

Priest: "After the sin."

Grissom: "Some people would call that a career in futility."

Priest: "Some call it a vocation."

Grissom: "A hundred years ago, we didn't have the technology for finger prints. Fifteen years ago we didn't have DNA. Hopefully one day we'll have fool-proof means by which to put the right man in jail in this case."

Priest: "Some day we won't need jails.—I celebrate mass every Thursday night, seven o' clock."

Grissom: "Thank you—but no."

Priest: "You don't believe?"

Grissom: "In religion. I believe in God, in science, in Sunday supper. I don't believe in rules that tell me how I should live."

Priest: "Even if they're handed down by God?"

Grissom: "How many crusades were fought in the name of God? How many people died because of someone's religion?"

Priest: " Fanaticism, not a religion."

Grissom: "Semantics. They're still dead. I'm sorry about Ben, father."

Priest: "You still suffer like a Catholic. A light bulb goes out, but people fix it and get a new one. A light bulb goes out for the Catholic, he stands in the dark and says, 'what did I do wrong?'"

Grissom: "That guilt's not in me anymore."

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I think I should be going out more.