Posted on 10/03/2008 2:04:18 PM PDT by steve-b
If anyone is more arrogant, condescending and smug than Bill Maher, I don't want to meet that person. Funny and insightful, yes. Someone I'd want to hang out with, no. This comes into play with "Religulous," Maher's smarmy documentary that basically forces us to hang out with him as he travels the world interviewing the dumbest, least eloquent, most extreme religious adherents he can find. His goal? To convince the audience that God is imaginary, that the people who believe in him are delusional, and that organized religion is a blight that must be wiped out if humanity is to progress.
You could disagree, as I do, with Maher's basic premise while still enjoying (or at least finding interesting) a movie that pursues it. But probably not this movie, which is as intellectually dishonest toward religion as Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed was in the other direction. For that matter, it's not even really anti-religion -- it's anti-Christianity. Judaism and Islam each get a scant few minutes of screen time, and no other faiths are even mentioned. The film can't make up its mind whether it's a sincere investigation or just an abrasive satire, and it suffers because of it....
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http://www.catholiccitizens.org/views/contentview.asp?c=48125
Maher and his frienf the community organizer Barack Obama.
The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost: Obama, ACORN, and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development
9/28/2008 1:38:00 PM
By Stephanie Block
For nearly forty years, The Wanderer has followed the Catholic Campaign for Human Development’s funding of radical, left-wing political organizations, many of them carrying the brand of Saul Alinsky. The Wanderer also covered the first Call to Action conference - the months of “hearings” leading up to it, its orchestrated structure and contrived demands - and our reporters commented on the Alinskyian nature of it, not merely in its tactics but in its outcomes. In hindsight, we can see that organized dissent in the Church was a product of organized parishes, filled with Alinskyian-trained laity.
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development is responsible for that.
It is also responsible, in some part, for the fact that forty years later, we have a virulently pro-abortion, pro-homosexual presidential candidate whose principle political training has been in Alinskyian organizing. While he - Barak Obama - was lead organizer in Chicago for the Developing Communities Project, it received a $40,000 Catholic Campaign for Human Development grant in 1985 and a $33,000 grant in 1986.
People like Maher thrive on negative attention. I refuse to give it to him.
I have a free subscription to Radar magazine. In this month’s issue there’s an interview with Maher where he talks about some of his beliefs. It appears that he believes in astrology and reincarnation.
Oooooo..i wouldn’t believe in reincarnation if I was Maher!
He defintely will come back as a snake that gets stomped.
Or an intestinal parasite in the bowels of Michael Moore.
Sounds like Maher meets Borat with a religious angle....you just have to admire the oozing originality of the left. {sarcasm off}
I guess the author hasn't met Michael Moore.
EWWWWWW! Great!
Idon’t think the guy is funny and not smart either. he just says the same stuff over and over.
Hey Maher, I knew George Carlin, you sir, are no George Carlin.
Maher does have a religion - himself.
Yup. Yup.
The guy is sooooo boring...why people think he is “funny’ or ‘witty” I just don’t get.
LOL!
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.
It’s funny- if a movie was produced satiring or parodying the beliefs of an atheist, an environmentalist, or an evolutionist- Maher would be on the front line of people condemning the movie as “false”, “hate speech” and “propaganda”.
That’s good!
Maher has no core.
When he used moral relevance to describe the terrorists flying into the World Trade Center, he cannot cite Reason.
I pity the fool.
Never liked that douche-bag. He strikes one as the type of person that was beat up by the chess club geeks in high school.
Wont see his movie. If anyone asks how I can bad talk a movie I havent seen, I will tell them that if I see a big, steamy pile of crap, I dont have to sniff it to know it stinks.
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