Posted on 10/09/2014 5:20:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Bill Maher isn’t a fool. That’s more than I can say for Ben Affleck, who’s a dhimmi idiot.
If religion dies (and I am excluding islam from the definition and the discussion), what forms the basis for morality? For right and wrong? For crime and punishment? Can you cite for me one society in our long bloody history, that was atheistic and benevolent and rights-oriented?
Amazing that his career wasn't sunk by that turkey.
Show business kids making movies of themselves
You know they don't give a f**k about anybody else...
Bunch of damn lotus eaters...
Why should Maher’s mouthed words count?
An apology from his direction holds no more weight than his opinion of anything - especially himself.
Affleck is flatlining.
As IF, former car park attendants, spouse-beating, bed-hopping druggies, former porn stars and former manicurists can figure out something the rest of us are incapable of doing!
Really??
Bill Maher is a perfect candidate for a “Damascus Road” experience.
In the last century, anti-religious types have killed at least an order of magnitude more innocent people than religious types.
And Christians have killed, for what they believe to be Christian reasons, very nearly zero innocents during this period. Muslims have killed a great many more for what they believe to be Islamic reasons.
Go back a ways in history, and the comparisons get a lot less clear cut. But for the last century or two, the comparison between the three groups is as clear as can be.
I tell them, "Yes, and 500 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed Manhattan, but I don't live in either of those times, so I don't worry about dinosaurs or Christians trying to kill me!"
Can’t stand this HBO homo.
I think it’s just a ratings gimmick.
Bill Maher stands on what he believes, even to the concern of others who don’t believe as he does. I can respect that.
Ben Affleck, who makes a living from speaking words, and evoking emotions, written by others who are smarter than him, attempted to demonstrate his intellige4nce by stating that being anti-”islam” is “racist”.
I will differ with Affleck, and here is why:
Here are the groups of Mohammedans, NOT based between Syria and Tunisia:
Filipinos - remember the Huks?
Thais - half the southern peninsula of Thailand
Indonesia is riddled with Mohameddans
A few of the ‘Stans that were part of the USSR
peoples of the Balkans.
So, Mr. Affleck, there are more peoples, than I believe, that you know, that call themselves mohammedans, and they are all dangerous.
If “religion dies” ...you have ISLAM! What an idiot.
He said anti-Islam = racist.
Well I'm sorry to say, BEN... but Islam is NOT a race. I have my own ideas about what Islam IS, but I'd get into all kinds of trouble saying so!
In the mean time and since YOU claim to know way more than the rest of the world... YOU tell US what Islam IS... I'd bet everything I own that you couldn't do that if your life depended on it!
Maher said: “Liberals need to stand up for liberal principles ... like freedom of speech, freedom to practice any religion you want without fear of violence, freedom to leave a religion, equality for women, equality for minorities —
Liberals are against all of this.
There you have it, it’s racist. Ben Affleck said so, and now it’s settled science, pretty much.
Quite.
However, this is where I break company with many of the anti-Islam crowd.
Both Judaism and Christianity have episodes in their past of extreme violence for religious reasons. Both religions have for practical purposes evolved out of this.
I see no reason Islam cannot do the same, though admittedly it will be more difficult due to the centrality of religious violence to the faith.
It's certainly possible, but I don't live in that time either.
Agreed.
There is, however, a difference between recognizing that Islam has not yet changed and claiming that it cannot change and therefore the only possible answer is a “final solution to the Muslim problem.”
Just realized post 19 didn’t come out the way I intended.
Did not mean to imply YOU were in favor of genocidal solutions to our problems with Islam. The comment was intended to be addressed to those who claim Islam simply cannot change and that the present situation is intolerable.
If you accept those two premises fully, the only reasonable answer is to get rid of Islam by getting rid of Muslims. Or possibly force them to abandon their faith, which has its own problems given our belief in religious freedom.
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