Posted on 02/17/2005 6:14:53 PM PST by advance_copy
When Maher made his comments about religion being a mental disorder, he was only paraphrasing Mao. When Mao said it he was paraphrasing Stalin, who was paraphrasing Lenin, who was paraphrasing Marx. Keep talking Bill, at the rate your going, your next career move will be doing stand-up at Sirloin Stockade on weeknights. No matter how many times the networks try to polish this turd, he still polutes everything he touches.
Homeopathy is very popular in Europe. Pure faith and nothing more.
polutes=pollutes
And don't forget C.S. Lewis...
If I want any crap out of Bill Maher, I'll drive up to LA and squeeze his head.
He was a third-rate actor who did one semi-interesting movie, "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death," and that was only interesting because it had Shannon Tweed and Adrienne Barbeau in it. Later on, I heard he had a talk show of some sort.
Maher, Dean, Ward Churchill, and so on. Let 'em rant on. They are gifts that keep on giving. They help keep things sorted out and defined. Nothing I like better than seeing clear marked out lines of definition between the atheist left and the God fearing right. Keep it up, Maher.
Just when you think the idiotic statements from the left couldn't get any more absurd, someone like this clown comes along and proves you wrong.
U.S. "Maher is unenlightened because of lack of religion"
Among many other things. What a shamster.
"I think religion is a neurological disorder." - Bill Maher
This cannot possibly be correct for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, a disorder denotes something that is not "normal" with regard to mental state. Most people around the world practice some kind of religion or at least pay lip service to it. If the majority believes, then it is not a disorder. If 95% of the population suffered from a neuroisis, that would actually be the normal and those who lacked it would be abnormal, wouldn't they?
In addition to that, I would contend that many anti-religious people wind up taking up other causes and turning them into religions after a fashion. I would put radical environmentalism in this group, for example.
I would remind you all that if you believe in God, you will probably not believe in the State. That's my view there. Other than the occasional insult from snobby elitists, my religion has never hurt me. It has also given me a force of stability during hard times and served as a venue to meeting new friends. What's wrong with that? By the way, how many friends does Mr. Maher have? If you asked him, I'd bet you'd get something like: "I don't have any, but everyone but me is an idiot so I don't give a damn."
Then again, Maher also admires terrorists and thinks inanimate objects kill people. Frankly, I think his biggest problem is that he is over forty and cannot get a steady friend.
Didn't he used to make a big deal about being partially Jewish, or am I confusing him with someone else? How can one cry about being a Jew and then turn around and bash the very same religious people?
Maher really doesn't deserve our time, unless you like to sneer at people. I cannot possibly take Maher seriously, and I remain baffled as to how he got the title of "comedian". His shows all stunk to boot. If it weren't for the fact that he held media elitist orthodix positions, his goose would have been cooked a decade ago.
Maher is such an ass
Oh, so he did an Ed Wood movie?
What's next? Will Penis Nose discover a neural tube defect that keeps idiots from talking?
LOL!
I have just enough Sioux blood that the English matriarch in my patriarchical society was able to cause geneological problems.
As a born in the USA citizen, it really means nothing, and everything.
"...I will not let him then declare that all religions are the same."
This is one way that these people reveal their ignorance. They will smugly declare that all religions are the same and that more people have been killed by religion than anything else. Both of these are false, amazingly shallow statements that suggest a bumper sticker mentality, as opposed to actual thinking.
"A faith than can coexist with diversity and science, that does not murder, that forgives, and offers hope"
Amen. I agree fully. This is what terrifies these people.
(By the way, my family is Toscani from a little town near Pisa)
Didn't he just tell FNC that he was looking to attract an audience from the right because he was getting tired of just having a liberal audience that booed any conservative guest? If he was serious, then he just blew it.
Ciao Owl558,
Some of it is natural. Sometimes I look at prideful youth and I feel maternal instincts. Everything is so easy and for free, life is a playground. In that period the temptation for atheism or New Age (morally nothing) religions is natural.
Sometimes it's a good exercise to imagine America or Italy with no Judeo-Christian values (not even warped). We could have untouchables. We could walk past a starving person and just say to ourselve: "Well, that is his plight in this life cycle."
The truth is that we've been blessed, blessed beyond the simple golden rule (which is just tit for tat). We've been "oppressed" into doing better, what is not natural.
Mr. Maher calls turning the other cheek or forgiveness a mental disorder... and in a way he's right. What a crazy thing to do!! But that's what's special about human beings, and if he could swallow his pride, he would understand that it's even what is underneath his profession as a humorist.He would understand that his precious cynicism is made precious and funny because there's a higher standard. Now he only imagines that higher standard as being more hip, or glib, or flashy... but the only higher standard that really matters is moral.
No one, not even the greatest scientists can talk sensibly about the Cosmos. They can only put convincing gravity in their voices. As the Arabs say, Allah (God) is great! He is, and that is why to know him at all, better (in unArab fashion) to put the thrust of our words, thoughts and deeds through the "wrong" organ, though our hearts.
Love. A concept so simple that even the lowliest peasant can be the greatest theologian.
A little town near Pisa? Tuscany is beautiful beyond compare. If you're ever driving through Italy, take the secondary roads to the smaller towns and cities. You will be pleased no end. And look for the yellow signs indicating minor historical landmarks... You and your loved ones might even have an entire abbey to explore all for yourselves, perhaps just opened up for you by a farm woman.
Tuscany, Umbria, Latium are full of these places. And you get the sensation of older generations plodding at slow and incremental steps to make the world that I'm sure even Signor Maher loves, but is presently too much in love with himself to admit.
Ciao!
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