Posted on 02/18/2005 2:58:40 AM PST by ViLaLuz
Television personality Bill Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," says Christians and others who are religious suffer from a neurological disorder that "stops people from thinking."
"We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. If you look at it logically, it's something that was drilled into your head when you were a small child. It certainly was drilled into mine at that age. And you really can't be responsible when you are a kid for what adults put into your head."
The former host of "Politically Incorrect" said the lack of enlightenment of so many Americans means the nation actually has more in common with its enemies than one might think.
Said Maher: "When you look at beliefs in such things as, do you go to heaven, is there a devil, we have more in common with Turkey and Iran and Syria than we do with European nations and Canada and nations that, yes, I would consider more enlightened than us."
Maher explained that he was not singling out evangelicals, but was targeting all "religious" people.
"I think the vote in Missouri [rejecting same-sex marriage] and a lot of other states is because people are religious," Maher said. "They don't have to be evangelical, but they're religious. They believe in religion, which as I think it was Jesse Ventura who had that quote about religion is a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers."
The television host told Scarborough he was convinced evangelicals' influence will wane.
Said Maher: "When people say to me, 'You hate America,' I don't hate America. I love America. I am just embarrassed that it has been taken over by people like evangelicals, by people who do not believe in science and rationality. It is the 21st century. And I will tell you, my friend. The future does not belong to the evangelicals. The future does not belong to religion."
Later in the interview, Maher returned to the childhood-religion theme, comparing fairy tales to Bible stories:
"When you were a kid and they were telling you whatever you believe in religion, do you think if they had switched the fairy tales that the read to you in bed with the Bible, you would know the difference?
"Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion that Jack built a beanstalk today, you would know the difference? Why do you believe in one fairy tale and not the other? Just because adults told you it was true and they scared you into believing it, at pain of death, at pain of burning in hell."
Perhaps he could debate Stephen Hawking
Despite an aging Albert Einstein's famous comment, "God does not play dice with the universe," renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking and his academic collaborator Thomas Hertog now suggest that God did roll the dice at least once at the moment of creation.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27721
...and they wanted to -(& did!)-arrest pastors and close down churches.
His dribble is mean and hate filled.
The saddest part about this is the amount of replies that have been generated. The most hurtful way to deal with people like him is to totally ignore him. The more attention he gets, the more valid he feels his argument is. Just as he has the right to think and say what he wants, we have the right to change the channel or, better yet, turn the TV off.
I was going to ask if his girlfriends were genetically female, but didn't want to offend anyone.
Yes. It's the beginning of the end, IMO. BUT, I hope Bill enjoys hell because unless he changes his heart, that's where he's heading. Sad.
I was just thinking that she looked more like a female impersonator, chuckle, chuckle. M
Maher confuses making outrageous statements with being smart.
I don't know why any woman would want to get that close to that creature. BUTT-UGLY!! )))))SHUDDER(((((
I'm sure Heaven offers tour packages. See the Hollywood stars sort of thing. ;)
I used to watch his show (sorry to say), but he really doesn't believe in marriage. He has stated that very very clearly, no euphemisizms. Also, notice in the article how he compares the fanatical actions of the 9/11 hijackers to evangelicals. What a moron. I don't see evangelicals going around committing murder, or stoning women. Maybe some are zealous, but they behave themselves and act civilized. A tenet of Christianity is about being willing to suffer for your faith. Radical Islam seems to be about killing others for your faith. That is universe of difference between the two.
Bill doesn't hate "America"! He just hates Americans! That's all!
I often find that someone who spews bile like this has self-hatred as his core issue. I also suspect he's finding that his life is pretty empty, despite acheiving what he may have defined as "success."
Must be a real bummer to be Bill Maher.
No. His comments are not directed toward all Americans. His comments are about Christians being brain dead. Can you imagine the hue and cry if he were to make the same statements about Jews? The ADL would be down his throat.
my comments are as follows:
We may be Christians, but WHO doesn't have a t.v. show anymore? WHO is slumming around on any show that will let him come on? Before this idiot condems the Christians, he best look at what he HAS NOT got!!!!
actuallu i thought he was on HBO. I dont know, I dont even get the channel so..
Go on, get outta here! Maher wouldn't last a week under Joe Stalin.
Actually, he's attacking all religious people. Wonder what this fool has to say about Islam? I think he's too much of a p*ssy to opine on THAT religion!
Weren't America's founders Deists? Maybe I shouldn't even think about this anymore. There are just too many things ticking me off here.
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