-preacher) would say or do. Casy felt you should not judge anyone but yourself, where as the Bible openly condemns certain situations, labels, sexual orient, behavior, and practices. Casy believes you should do what you feel and doesn't believe in right or wrong. Casy once said, "I didn' even know it when I was preachin', but I was doin' some consid'able tom-cattin' around." He told of times when he lacked responsibility, filled girls up with the Holy Spirit by his preachings and then continually took them out with him to "lay in the grass." He once said, "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say." A hedonistic moral code that tells of pleasure before rules and presumes to deny punishment is highly unusual for a one-time preacher. Casy struggled with his personal inner faith, and also his actions and speeches that defied what a regular man of the faith would do. The inner being of Jim Casy was evolving and furthermore conflicting when he metamorphisized from a man of thought to a man of action. Towards the beginning of the book, Casy spent many a night sleep- deprived and many a day mute philosophizing to himself. "Say, Casy, you been awful goddamn quiet the las' few days...you ain't said ten words the las' couple days, " Tom said. Even Casy himself had trouble speaking at all: "Now look, Tom. Oh what the hell! So goddamn hard to say anything." He remarked early on in the book, "There's stuff goin' on an' they's folks doin' things...An' if ya listen, you'll hear...res'lessness. They's stuff goin' on that these folks is doin' that don't know nothin' about- yet. They's gonna come somepin outa all these folks goin' wes'...They's gonna come a thing that's gonna change the whole country." Later in the book Casy stops predicting "a thing" and takes part of this revolu...
