Fortunate Bigboss took along his companions in a residence which he ownes in the green state of Vermont.

Rapidly, Candide found its forces and its smile. Forgotten angers of the elements and human ferocities. Its optimistic nature took again quickly the top:

" See like nature is splendid here. A true corner of paradise! "

Martin: "A tiny plot of ground on a not less tiny ground sphere lost through a vast hydrogen universe".

Candide: "Some affirm, nevertheless, that the human phenomenon represents the " Omega point " of the biological evolution".

Martin: " Beautiful assertion! Homo sapiens sapiens can well parade. To have acquired into 1 to 2 million years the bipedy, the language and a little dilated brain, what a beautiful business ! "

Fortunate Bigboss: "There is all the same a large difference between a human being and a worm! "

Martin: " A large difference ? The worm or lombric has the majority of our organs, a mouth, an anus, an intestine, blood vessels which function like gills with a beautiful colourless or green blood. This animal, very malignant, managed to become hermaphrodite and thus he is coupled better than the man and profits from a reciprocal fecundation ".

Candide: " He does not have a brain ? "

Martin: " Of course he does have but smaller than at the man, which enables him to lead a happy life, without the torments of the psychoanalysis and the existential pangs".

The beautiful optimism of Candide knew a serious reverse. He decided to react:

" The human beings however tried to understand the universe where they are living ".

Martin: "Yes! They completely succeeded, since millenia, to work out odd myths. And each one of these myths asserts to hold " The Truth ".

Fortunate Bigboss: " And is science, also a myth ? "

Martin: " Of another kind. Currently, on our fragile planet lost within billion billion galaxies, the men have the naive conviction that the universe was created for their derisory destiny.

And at the boxoffice of the faith reigns, today, the top three of Islamism, Christianity, Hindhuism and Buddhism. With an extraordinary multitude of more or less strange beliefs ".

Fortunate Bigboss: " Do you want that we are interested more closely in the top three? "

Martin and Candide: "Yes! Yes! "

They joined Benares, holy city for the hinduists and the buddhists. At the dawn, they went on banks of Gange to attend the cremations. Thousands of beggars, wooden bowl in the hand, assembled along kilometers of streets, collected the rupees that the pilgrims gave to them.

A Brahman agree to leave his meditation to praise his religion to them. He proudly unrolled the odds and ends of the beliefs (Hindu translation of superstitions) of his faith: sacred delirium of Veda and Upanishad, the Pantheon of the gods (Indra, Brahma, Vishnou, Shiva), the atman-brahman, the loophole of the infernal cycle of deads and rebirths by the Small or the Large Vehicle. And, in apotheosis, the accession to the eternal Nirvana.

The chap, excited, described the cohort of the innumerable tendencies and sects which developed the Hindu thought: wishnouism, castes and under-castes, usurers, tantrists, craftsmen, buddhists and anti-buddhists, agnostics, satiated civil servants, shivaists, cosmogonists, krishnaists, intellectuals and peasants, fakirs, rajahs and devouts,.... interminable list.

Our poor travellers, overwhelmed, fled. Not without to have attended the passage of an untouchable, that the Brahman received with a spittle and superb contempt, then of a Moslem whom he gave him a withering look. This last returned to him with hate. Undoubtedly between them there were a few thousands of deaths assassinated, decapitated and/or burned.

Fortunate Bigboss and its companions hastened to leave these unfriendly places for others, probably more welcoming.

With a leap of a plane, they arrived at the center of Christendom. In Rome, they attended of one of the innumerable ceremonies where the representative of the Creator on our insignificant planet pronounced a homily. The venial sins of the Holy Church during its history hardly held its attention, like that of its predecessors: woodsheds of the Inquisition and the emblematic fate of Giordano Bruno, the eight crusades which massacre the non-believers or badly-believiers, Moslem and Jews which had the unforgivable defect to be indifferent or hostile to the Christian creed. The pope was pleased with progress of the faith in the areas where ignorance as illiteracy reigned, Latin America, Africa... and deplored its regression in the advanced western societies where the tepidness, unacceptable secularity or even a criminal atheism dominate. He pointed out the multitude of the proven miracles of the Christendom, of which the other religions are naturally deprived:

The arrival of the true Son of God on earth, the Immaculate Conception, the Resurrection, the Deception, the Ascension, the Assumption, the Innovation, the Holy Trinity... He insisted on the teaching of Christ and his compassion, the regrettable episodes of the Crusades and the Inquisition being only of negligible collateral mistakes of the past.

Martin, quite well informed, delivered to his companions an outline innumerable sects which competed with that which best had made its breakthrough in the history and had increased in a fantastic way its share of market, the catholic sect:

Protestants, adventists, dentists, integrists, pederast priests, pentecotists, excommunicated, paquists, exceptionally gifted and undergifted ones, reformed, enarchs and other oligarchs, Moons, depressed, children of the Messiah, evangelists, heretics, Jehovah's Witnesses, against Jehovah's Witnesses -......

Flabbergasted by this flood of sects and undeniable miracles (and disputed) our travellers gave up visiting the French high-place of the miracle, Lourdes, where crowd of pilgrims attested each year of the attentive benevolence of the Lord for their daily miseries.

The third great human belief (Hindu translation of superstitions), object of their curiosity was Islam. A billion Moslems, through planet, adhered to this faith. The diversity of their schools did not have anything to envy the concurrent beliefs: chiites, integrists, hysterics, wahhabites, blacks and yellows, fundamentalists, yemenites, seniles, sunnites, soufis, delighted and bloated, obese and skinny fellows, scholars and morons, neurasthenics and optimists.... the spectrum was broad.

Fortunate Bigboss proposed to his companions to go near a Moroccan ulema, hadj, returned for a long time of Mecca. This saint man explained to them the Coran, its charia and the five pillars of believing. He spoke to them about the persecutions undergone by the Moslems on behalf of Incroyants during ages (eight sanguinary crusades of the infidel Christians), of the massacres perpetrated by the Hindus against Believers and their right punishment by Djihad. He explained the vision of the angel Gabriel to them by the prophet Mahomet and the diffusion of the Faith in Allah, true God, exclusive God, unique God, by mollahs through planet.

Our travellers were perplexed. What to believe and who to choose ? Jesus ? Mahomet ? or Buddha ? Allah ? Jehovah or Shiva ? The Holy Trinity, the angel Gabriel or the Large Vehicle ?

Fortunate Bigboss recalled them that if these three beliefs (Hindu translation of superstitions), reigned, many others disputed the beliefs of the poor earthmen: paganism, stupidity, animism, marxismleninismstalinismmaoismcastrismcoreisminfantilism and more isms....and isms ....and isms....

Martin had an idea of genius: "Let us draw lots for the winner! "

They still discussed of the appropriateness of this solution when Candide pushed a cry:

"Pangloss, my good Master! "

Pangloss, the inalterable professor of optimism had just reappeared.