This is what I thought, but had no proof. No making fun of Bhuddism or Hinduism, and definitely not Islam (Maher is no dummy. He wants to go on living!)
What is it about Christianity that whacko liberals (like Maher) are afraid of?
The fact that it's true. They are all afraid of Truth.
“What is it about Christianity that whacko liberals (like Maher) are afraid of?”
It represents the very foundation of the society that they’d like to think of ruling as overloads by means of their over-estimated intellects and inflated egos, and it’s a foundation that doesn’t welcome them.
Christianity built that which they’d like to lay claim to. And they realize their own inferiority next to the Christian tradition, so they mock it all the harder. The moral message of Christianity as well as its hisotical past intimidates them and condemns their lifestyle, so they attack it with all the rancour they can muster.
In short, they attack Christianity because it competes with them. It doesn’t play lapdog the way Hinduism and Buddhism can be made to do by new age leftists. Nor is there the moral superiority they can assume over it as is so easily done with Islam. So they’re stuck with fighting it.