Posted on 11/28/2010 10:56:21 PM PST by Walter Scott Hudson
This much I guarantee, if you care at all about the world in which you live and hold to a particular view which dictates how that world may be improved, you will be offended by what you are about to read. Given the nature of the subject matter, provocation cannot be avoided. We’re going to examine the most sacred and fundamental beliefs which undergird our thoughts, feelings, traditions, and actions. We’re going to consider ideas people die for. We’re going to consider about ideas people kill for. We’re going to do so because debate has sprung up in America, and around the world, regarding whether people of faith ought to have the right to live according to their beliefs. The stakes of that debate are nothing less than individual liberty, and extend to matters life and death.
One of the chief voices in popular culture articulating the anti-religion argument is Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time and among the most antagonistic leftist ideologues participating in our public discourse. In 2008, Maher produced Religulous, a documentary-style film in which he interviews “some of religion’s oddest adherents.” The film is more than a critique of religion. It is a call to arms for the purpose of uprooting and destroying religion. Cinema Blend critic Josh Tyler articulated the purpose succinctly.
Early on in Religulous, Bill Maher throws up a bar chart illustrating the number of people in America who are non-religious. That number is 16%, more than blacks, more than Jews, more than numerous other minority groups who seem to have no problem making themselves heard and getting Congress to do their bidding. Maher wonders aloud why non-religious people are so underground, and why they aren’t having an impact on the national discussion.
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No need for him to wonder, most people know a jackass when they hear and see one...besides he wears too much make-up
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For example the claim, that religion is violent and dangerous - causes all the wars - should be addressed with data on the numbers of people murdered by atheist states and the wars started by atheists in the name of their superior social ideology.
When he gets into asking questions about our faith, we should not even answer him rather ask the atheist to prove his claim that there is no God. He will say that you have to prove there is a God since you make that claim. You say he is making the claim there is no God and that he has no proof of his claim.
He has no high moral ground and no business grilling people of faith to justify themselves and God to him. He is not on an adventure to be converted. He is on a mission to destroy. He should be treated as such a weasel.
Every one of his attacks should be met with data on his ideal. Sexual disease, broken families, atheist mass murder in the name of Maher’s social Marxist religion: atheists have murdered more innocent people in the name of atheism in the past few hundred years than Christians have killed in the name of their faith in all of their 2,000 years of history. The Soviets slaughtered hundreds of millions for their politically incorrect faith and that is not including the murder of all the other atheist regimes that have committed mass murder in the name of atheism.
When he had the gall to talk to Christians about sacrificing people to “their gods” he should have atheist abortion thrown in his mug.
When he attacks with claims of morally imperfect ministers who have committed sin, he should be attacked with all the imperfect atheists who have committed sin. When he claims that atheists don't make the claim to be moral whereas the ministers who sin do make that claim, tell him it sounds like a personal problem to you and he should try setting standards and goals for his character and behavior. Has he never failed to meet his own standards for himself?
When he asks why it should be the ten commandments society ask him what rules of moral guidance he uses. Tell him this is not a communist state where atheists can harm people of faith and dictate their social belief structure to the and he is just going to have to accept religious freedom. He is not going to be able to mass murder everyone like his comrades do in other nations.
When Christians challenge these missionaries of materialism in this way, atheists freak out in rage. Their colors show very quickly and they are knocked off the pedestal of that “moral high ground.” They will ban you immediately from web forums they control when you mention their state mass murder rate and history.
God is not limited by the likes of Maher and his witless friends. Indeed it is likely that Maher is responsible for more conversions to Christianity than any preacher from a pulpit. The questions he raises and the inadequate answers he renders surely push listeners to investigate spiritual matters on their own. This is the unintended consequence of livid atheism.
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