varying degrees of light

[Homer's mom just died]

Homer: Does my mother know I feel bad about things I said?

Apu: Well, perhaps she's around us now. She might already have been reincarnated as that newborn baby or that tiny mouse in the nacho cheese.

Flanders: Oh for crying out loud, people aren't mice!

Apu: Oh, what a surprise! Joe Jesus Junior's gonna set us all straight!

Flanders: Look, Homer. People don't come back as anything, except for our Lord who came back as bread and that's it.

Homer: That's it.

Homer sighs, picks up his groceries and slumps out of the Kwik-E-Mart

Apu: That's the thing with your religion - it's a bummer.

Flanders: Even the sing-alongs?

Apu: No, the sing-alongs are okay.