what did skinner believe?
Atheism
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 Skinner 's creepy monologue about his mother watching him is a parody of Norman Bates ' similar dialogue from the 1960 Hitchcock film Psycho . 

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 Other figures associated with The Simpsons have publicly criticized the episode . In an April 2001 interview , Harry Shearer , the voice of Principal Skinner , recalled that after reading the script , he told the writers , " That 's so wrong . You 're taking something that an audience has built eight years or nine years of investment in and just tossed it in the trash can for no good reason , for a story we 've done before with other characters . It 's so arbitrary and gratuitous , and it 's disrespectful to the audience . " 

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 Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli cited 20 arguments for God 's existence , asserting that any demand for evidence testable in a laboratory is in effect asking God , the supreme being , to become man 's servant . 

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 The character was named after Dr. Kersh and Anton Kersh , characters from Vampire Circus — a favourite film of series creator Chris Carter . According to writer and producer Frank Spotnitz , the creation of the Kersh character was due to the writers desiring to create another of the several characters in the series who put pressure on Walter Skinner . 

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 For this season , former series ' leads Duchovny and Anderson scaled back their involvement with the show , with the former only starring in the two episodes that formed the season finale , " The Truth " . Doggett and Reyes became the show 's central characters , and former recurring character Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi ) became a main character . Series creator Chris Carter had hopes that the show could continue on with new leads , and the opening credits were accordingly redesigned again . 
