Posted on 09/30/2008 12:34:30 PM PDT by Zakeet
America is "dumb" because it remains the most religious country in the western world. This according to Bill Maher, who made such a statement on the September 30 edition of "The View." Appearing to promote his new documentary "Religulous," Maher continued his soapbox rants against organized religion. Elisabeth Hasselbeck set up Maher noting his comparison of President Bush to Osama Bin Laden, and noted that many presidents such as John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, spoke publicly of a higher power. Maher likewise replied "of course, it’s, it’s a religious country, unlike every other civilized western democracy in the world, this country is still extremely religious because we’re young and dumb."
After denying judgement in his film, Bill Maher chastised those of faith for lacking "critical thinking." Hasselbeck followed up wondering if he believes those of faith are lacking intelligence. Maher denied he subscribes to such a sentiment, but added intelligent people of faith have a "neurological disorder" who "walled off part of [their] mind."
At the end of the segment Sherri Shepherd wondered if the comedian " ever just talked to God and asked God what does He think." Maher answered Sherri with the question "did he answer you?" When Shepherd answered in the affirmative, Bill Maher suggested she suffers from a mental disorder.
Before quickly moving to religion, Maher weighed in on the presidential campaign. On the subject of Sarah Palin, the comedian made an unintentionally funny line: "If Joe Biden made some of the comments she made to Katie Couric, we would think he had brain damage." Actually, the opposite holds true as, as NewsBusters has documented, the networks have been much quicker to jump on Sarah Palin’s gaffes than they have Joe Biden’s. Sherri Shepherd was quick to note Biden’s comment that FDR appeared on television when the stock market crashed.
Maher also, in his rant against Sarah Palin, labeled the Alaska governor a "bimbo," but very quickly added a bimbo can be a man or a woman. In an attempt to recover more, Maher also called Dan Quayle a "bimbo."
Relevent portions of the transcript follow.
He exists to smoke pot and p!ss on Christians.
Actually, this poor fool is to be pitied. He leads an empty, shallow, bitter life. It fills him with hatred and despair, constantly viewing the world as antagonistic to him and his guilty conscience.
Afraid of judgment, he spews venom hoping that he can damage someone so he can feel a bit bigger, a bit more significant.
But he is only empty and arrogant...guess that makes him A LIBERAL...
We should pray for him because none of us would trade places with him...guess that makes him A LOSER but I repeat myself.
Maher is a Christophobe. I’ve seldom seen a more prejudiced intolerant bigot.
It was on ABC Disney, less than a week after 9-11, that Bill Maher called our troops “cowards” and said that whatever the 9-11 hijackers were, they were NOT cowards.
i vaguely remember this.
did he have to apologize?
Bill Maher? Isn’t his 15 minutes up yet????
Hey Maher...Just because *you*, are mentally stunted, at a perverted 13 yr old level...doesn’t make the rest of us plague rats like you and all the rest of the drug damaged, sicko, death cult Left.
The “mirror” is the person genuinely living in as close of a walk with God as humanly possible,
this light causes the faults of the wicked to be visible.
It’s all in the new testament...
Maher is a cowardly little sh!tstain, and he is nothing more.
Otherwise, I am afraid that he is doomed to one of the hottest cauldrons that hell has to offer.
No matter how much I don’t want to....I’m going to have to pray for this man’s soul.
Won’t happen...He is one of the cheerleaders for the Hordes of the Damned. A ghoulish jigging joker, rabble rousing the cannon fodder of the armies of the zombie dead.
Ya know these are the kind of people that are supporting Obama, has anyone given any thought if he wins what we might have to do to get our country back? Hum...other than using force of course. Gee 4 years.. could see alot of changes and lose alot of ground.
I would love to be there on the day when proud atheist Bill Maher finally meets his maker. I can vividly picture Maher trembling while standing on a fresh puddle of his own urine.
His show got cancelled. And yet ABCDisney has brought him back to insult flyover country.
Did you hear something? I thought so!
Obviously projecting his own neurological disorder. A common practice among those who refuse to look more deeply at themselves.
Apparently hanging out at the Playboy mansion 6 out of 7 days of the week,sleeping with Hefs bunnies, doing large amounts of drugs and living a completly imoral lifestyle gives Herr Maher a special type of insight on religion and the poor unwashed masses that cling to it like their guns.
Maher is a SLIME. He should crawl back under the rock from where he came............
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