Ron Glass to me he WAS Shepard Book.
Book: I’ve been out of the abbey two days. I’ve beaten a lawman senseless. Fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I’m not even sure if I think he was wrong.
Mal: Well, what about you, Shepherd? How come you’re flying about with us brigands? I mean, shouldn’t you be off bringing religiosity to the fuzzy-wuzzies or some such?
Book: Oh, I got heathens aplenty right here,
Book: A government is a body of people usually—notably—ungoverned.
Zoe: Preacher, don’t the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin’?
Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Ah, hell, Shepherd, I ain’t looking for help from on high. That’s a long wait for a train don’t come.
Shepherd Book: Why when I talk about belief, why do you always assume I’m talking about God?
Shepherd Book: I don’t care what you believe in, just believe in it.
Rest in peace Shepard, They can take the sky from you.
Anyone who has read the Book (Bible) knows that it matters *what* one believes.
The demons believe there is one God and tremble, but will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire with all who die in their sins. One must believe that "Christ died for his sins, was buried and rose again on the third day" to be saved (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ranson for all. (1 Timothy 2:3b,4a).
Ron Glass didn't believe this. He was a Buddhist. Like the rich man in Luke 16:19-30 "[he] died, was buried and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments."
There is no peaceful rest for the unsaved.