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.
Maher: The Moose Shooter is a young dumb religious bimbo!
Zak: Maher is a poor stupid lost liberal twit!
I think they are describing their reflections in the mirror.
Bill Maher is old and out of touch. America is no longer a Christian nation.
Mahr deserves a good beating. He is the devil.
I’d like to give Maher the worst atomic wedgie of his life and that would take some doing! One that defies the stretchability of the cotton/spandex/latex.
Bill, religion is part of America’s heritage and foundation. You’re just going to have to get over it!
The liberals are trying to hijack America and turn it into an anything-but-Christian socialist state. Jesus and Christianity is what they really hate.
Here is a little Religious Proficiency Test for ya’...
Imagine Bill Maher having a death-bed conversion and being saved at the last minute and try to smile about it.
If you have a hard time with that, you have more work to do, as I do.
I disagree. Maher deserves the passive scorn of being ignored. His little movie isn’t likely to do very well either.
Is there some way I can add Maher to an ignore list so his name won’t show up when I view FR anymore?
Nothing this repulsive mutoid says or does is of the slightest interest to me.
My guess is that Maher is mad at his Mommy and Daddy, and has never gotten over it. He’ll probably never grow up.
Maher’s arms are too short to box with God.
Old and stupid is no way to go through life.
What does Bill Maher say one second after he dies?
Answer: Ooops!
i don’t think he’s funny. i won’t spend one minute of my time or one dollar on that human debris.
i do wonder though, the commercials, he calls it “bible land” and then you see explosions.
the explosions in “bible land” (israel, middle east) are coming from those that use the koran to excuse their islamic facist, murderous behavior
did he also insult the muslims? and the koran? or only the bible?
if he didn’t take on fanatical islam, he’s a coward.
or maybe the truth is that Jesus IS real, and we are accountable to God for our own actions!!
Bill Maher does not deserve any attention. He is a lowly, scumbag elitist that made his money being negative. Plus he is a buffoon.
Yeah I do, but it’s not for the same reason you allude to, it is because I will know that he has wasted pretty much his whole life up until that point!
Hey Bill.
I seem to recall that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a religious man. A Christian even. A Reverend, I believe.
Was he suffering from a “neurological disorder”?
Isn’t he one of your heroes?
I saw an ad for your movie last night, and it looked like an unfunny, execrable piece of filth.
Just like you.
From someone who believes he has no reason to exist.
ABCDisney didn’t learn their lesson after 9-11 when Bill Maher shot his trap off.
And he’s the past tense of a dumb “twit”.
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............
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Irreligulouse
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8580258&postID=3277867847579662305
“Apparently, Bill Maher’s absecular new film, Religulous, mainly features him doing man-on-the-street interviews with stupid people, asking them about religion. This is done with the intent to demonstrate how stupid religion is, when it actually demonstrates how foolish and shallow Bill Maher is.
For example, what if he had conducted the identical exercise with regard to the U.S. Constitution, or the Theory of Relativity, or art ,or literature, or economics? Would the answers he elicited be a useful reflection on the value of these subjects? No, of course not.
But Bill Maher is not a serious man. Well, perhaps seriously bitter. Which is another point. Maher does not have the insight or depth of character to delve into the roots of his own bitterness and anger, which pose insurmountable obstacles to any understanding of the Subject of the subject he pretends to explore in Religulous. Thus, the whole exercise is one of triumphant self-justification and narcissistic exultation. Obviously, if he were truly curious about God, he could have dialogued with serious intellectuals possessing valid gnosis. But if he were to do that, he would look like the unlearned rube that he is. ...
...In the case of Maher, it doesn’t take a psychologist to see that he isn’t actually curious about religion. He has no desire to actually understand the Divine, much less to humbly take the steps necessary to develop an open relationship with That which transcends him. Rather, he is bound by a kind of childishly arrogant, intrusive, and presumptuous curiosity that imagines it can know All without any work or preparation, much less humility and surrender.
This is not at all like proper curiosity, which is much more analogous to patient openness to the Real, embodied in faith... Thus, Maher does not — and cannot — reach any useful conclusions about God, only foreordained ones that are implicit in his original arrogance and omnipotence. As such, the film will be a memorial to his own cosmic stupidity, nothing more. No wonder he’s so bitter, because the bitterness is merely the residue of some kind of deep disappointment. Bitterness is a “presence” that always conceals a “present absence.” So, what is absent in Maher?
It would be uncharitable to go down that route. We’ll just leave it alone for now. Rat faced homunculus. ...
....Often, when someone is speaking about a subject, the more important communication is the emotional tone of the communicant, not the supposed subject matter. Or, you could say that the subject matter is just a superficial excuse for the person to evacuate a primitive emotion. For example, we vividly see this in the left’s unhinged reaction to Sarah Palin. What is most noteworthy to the discerning listener is the primitive emotionality that she provokes — very similar to the primitive emotionality that women provoke in the Islamic world.
In the case of the latter, no men in the Islamic world seem to have the insight or maturity to turn inward and wonder at the source of the violence and contempt in their attitudes toward women. Likewise, with the left vis-a-vis Sarah Palin. There are actually some noteworthy exceptions who are alarmed and appalled at the primitive display, but for most of the left, their reaction is all about their own narcissistic trinity of envy, contempt, and triumph.
Imagine the envy Sarah Palin must provoke in desiccated old feminist hags such as Maureen Dowd, Erica Jong, or Gloria Steinem. The envy is intolerable, so it is quickly transformed into contempt and then triumph. But again, it is the triumph of a sick part of the mind, so it is obviously a pyrrhic victory; if you win, you lose. ....
.....Maher represents it as the bitter transformation of Paradise Lost to Paradise Doesn’t Exist and I Didn’t Want it Anyway; or, to put it another way, I’m Back in a Triumphant and Contemptuous Narcissistic Paradise of My Own Making. Plus, Hugh Hefner Invites Me to His Parties, So I Can Pretend That Those Airheaded Bimbos and Porn Stars Would Ever Be Attracted to a Rat Faced Homunculus Like Me if I Didn’t Have All This Money. ...” ~ Gagdad Bob bttt
I agree with everything you’ve said. Our Senator Mark Pryor has a cameo appearence in the movie! There are A LOT of Arkansans that are truly pissed off at him for being part of this hypocristy! He states his Christian faith when he runs for office.
he’s never been funny
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