Posted on 08/23/2009 4:10:02 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
See Part I of my NewsReal Sunday discussion of Friday night's interview between Bill Maher and Sam Harris on Real Time.
Leftist comedian Bill Maher just can't help being a jackass even toward people he respects. You'd think that if anyone could get him to at least attempt to grasp the value in the religious experience it would be believers who share his "progressive" political faith:
Maher: I have unending respect for Bill Moyers. He's a brilliant man. He's also a Baptist minister. Jimmy Carter, y'know, a pretty bright guy. How do we reconcile someone who is so intelligent but who believes things which you and I think are incredibly childish and nonsensical? It's a neurological disorder that they have?
Harris: No, it's a social disorder. It's a conversational disorder. It's the fact that we can't apply enough pressure to these ideas and it's taboo to do so. And there's this fact that there is a core of truth to religion that we should be interested in. There's the fact that people do have transformative experiences. If Jesus really was who they said he was or Buddha likewise, it's possible perhaps to be the Tiger Woods of compassion. It's possible to really be someone who has transformed himself. And we should be interested in that we should want to actuallize that and understand it scientifically. But the problem is it's so mired in religious mumbo jumbo and superstition and taboo and religion has seemed to be the only game in town in talking about that possibility and we need to overcome that.
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If Maher had been born with a pair of gonads, he’d attack Islam they way he attacks Christianity. Unfortunately, Maher is nothing but a dumbass, braindead coward. Come on Billy! Get with the program. Make us laugh by bashing the mullahs!
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They just are adamant that in something like 4000 years, religion has never, ever had a good idea or anything worth preserving. Thus they are bound and determined to despise everything that religion embraces.
The idea that religion *integrated* good ideas as it went along is just unthinkable to them. This is why they are perpetually stuck in the “starting from scratch” mode.
“We must act like animals, because animals are ‘natural’, and what humans do is ‘unnatural’.”
They just keep running in place and not getting anywhere.
As much as I cannot stand Islam, I have to say that we Christians have much to learn from the muslims when it comes to defending the faith.
Dittos to what you said.
Bill Moyers avoided service in the military, and specifically the Korean War, through the canard of going into the ministry. There is not a court in the land that would convict him of being a devout Christian.
He does attack Islam. See “Religulous.” He goes after the Islamofascists in it.
Harris said: “But the problem is it’s so mired in religious mumbo jumbo and superstition and taboo and religion has seemed to be the only game in town in talking about that possibility and we need to overcome that.”
This applies to Bill Maher as well: St. Paul in 2nd Corinthians 4:2-4, said, [We] “have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness (or deception), nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them”
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