All in the Family (TV Series)

Joey's Baptism (1976)

Jean Stapleton: Edith Bunker

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• Edith Bunker : [Edith argues with Archie over whether Joey should be baptized]  Oh, no, I don't think it's right. We can't do that without Mike and Gloria's permission.

  Archie Bunker : [upset]  To Hell with permission. Jeez, permission, permission. That's one of the things wrong with the world today. There's too much permission. Let me tell ya somethin'. When the missionaries went into darkest Africa to bring God to the natives, you think they asked their permission? Like Hell. They dragged 'em out of the trees and right down to the river. And they held them under there until they seen the light. And the natives was glad about that, 'cause that's the way they found God. And then later on, when they was chained in the bottom of the slave ships, why, they was happy, because they had somebody to pray to, there, see?. Which proves that for everybody's own good, you gotta use force. That's the Christian way.