Bill Maher trashes Noah Arc/Bible.

[Sulaco]

Why is it stupid? The core foundation of Christianity is baseless and has EXACTLY the same amount of evidence as the existence of leprechauns. So please quit trying to pretend there are some Christians out there that are more credible than others, because there aren't. They are all the same, they just have different levels of idiocy.

Including the ones vastly more intelligent, educated and successful than yourself?

 

[JackBurton]

were you abused by a priest? your hatred of peoples beliefs that dont affect you in anyway s ridiculous.

It is frustrating living around people that are so willfully ignorant. You no longer get a pass on your bullsh!t. If you care not to have your beliefs mocked, then you will need to come up with EVIDENCE to support it. It is far past time that people stop coddling religious nutjobs. You don't get to hide behind, "it's my beliefs, and you should respect them." Wrong. In order to gain respect, you will need to produce a strong argument and again EVIDENCE to support it. Just like EVERY OTHER claim has to do. If you don't, your "beliefs" are as laughable as someone who claims fairies are real.

What I find hypocritical is that these same religious imbeciles that play the victim, "please don't mock my beliefs," will ABSOLUTELY mock someone who claimed they believe in fairies. They've been playing this game since the dawn of religion. "Freedom of religion" really means, "freedom of my religion" to them.

As for, hatred for people's beliefs that don't affect me? Are you that fucking clueless?

 

[JackBurton]

Including the ones vastly more intelligent, educated and successful than yourself?

You mean the ones that also have exactly ZERO evidence for their claims? Those vastly more intelligent people?

 

[JackBurton]

Kind of like the posters here apparently. When was the last time you saw, touched or, could point at honor, love or, regret? Are they any less real for not being easily measured, standardized for all humans or, replicable in scientific experiments? There is an entire world of experiences, perspectives and, questions that science can't even begin to answer and you're calling religious people idiots? There's no idiot like someone who believes they know all the possible answers.

Those would be Christians my friend.

 

[JackBurton]

Maher is a coward. he goes after Christianity because he knows nothing will happen to him and being a dick gets ratings when he speaks ill about islam and how Muhammad was a war mongering pedophile then i will stand up and applause. until then he is just a loud mouth pussy.

Have you seen Religulous? All religions are equal. Equally baseless.

 

[crownjules]

were you abused by a priest? your hatred of peoples beliefs that dont affect you in anyway s ridiculous.

I wouldn't call Blue Laws, schools forced to teach abstinence only sex ed, schools including Intelligent Design alongside science curriculum, and the fight against same-sex marriage "beliefs that don't affect you in any way."

If they only held their beliefs to themselves it wouldn't be a problem. But too many of them think everyone else should be living by those beliefs as well.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Those would be Christians my friend.

You are the one limiting yourself.
You are the one being "willfully ignorant " by refusing to admit there's a possibility of anything beyond science.
You are the one who's "frustrated."
You are the one posting angry diatribes.
You are the one who can find no value in people who don't believe what you do.

Know what they all have in common?

 

[JackBurton]

You are the one limiting yourself.
You are the one being "willfully ignorant " by refusing to admit there's a possibility of anything beyond science.
You are the one who's "frustrated."
You are the one posting angry diatribes.
You are the one who can find no value in people who don't believe what you do.

Know what they all have in common?

Again, because of your close minded views, you fail to grasp some of the basic concepts. I'm willing to accept any option as long as you provide the supporting evidence. What would it take you to be convinced your god does not exist? My views can be changed provided you produce the evidence. Yours cannot. Christians claim to know the origin of the universe, I do not. Again, the answer is Christians are the ones that claim to know all. Scientists and rational minded people do not.

And yes, I am frustrated. It's just hard to believe people are still this dumb. I'm not angry though. Maybe shooting straight comes off as angry because you're used to people tip toeing around your ridiculous superstitions. Sorry, not going to do it. If you are scared of facing reality that's not my problem.

 

[shadow9d9]

You are the one limiting yourself.
You are the one being "willfully ignorant " by refusing to admit there's a possibility of anything beyond science.
You are the one who's "frustrated."
You are the one posting angry diatribes.
You are the one who can find no value in people who don't believe what you do.

Know what they all have in common?

Your post seems pretty angry and frustrated to me...

Possibility beyond science? I don't even know what this means... Do you even know what science is?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

COSMOS, I have spoken.

 

[ThinClient]

were you abused by a priest? your hatred of peoples beliefs that dont affect you in anyway s ridiculous.

Don't affect! HAHA. Tell another one.

IF ONLY the Christian right-wing fundamental cases COULD keep their religion to themselves!

 

[SlitheryDee]

While some believe the Bible is true in every detail, the majority of Christians know it to be allegory. Lumping all Christians together is rather foolish, disengenuous and, stupid for a comedian who does an elitist prick shtick.

There are some stories in there that, if they are allegories, they're not allegories for anything sensible or good. What is God murdering all of humanity an allegory for? Is it a warning to not be wicked, or else God will kill you? I guess the rest of the people who had nothing to do with you are collateral damage. It's a warning that God's aim ain't all that good when it comes to purging the world of evil then. It's senseless ultimately. It doesn't work as a true story or an allegory.

Bet you don't think the birth and death of Jesus are allegorical though. That's too central to Christianity to give up, even though the bible declares all those other stories with the same straight faced authority as it does the story of Jesus. There's not a wink or a smiley in the whole book to let you know that it's this is the one we're telling with tongue-firmly-in-cheek, and that is the one that really happened. No, you have to separate them yourself, based presumably on what makes you feel the best about life. That may be a good way to put your mind at ease, but it's a very bad way to get at any kind of truth. Some of us would like to know what the truth is, regardless of how that makes us feel. We see those stories you claim to be allegorical and count them against the veracity of the whole.

 

[Miramonti]

Maher has many opinions I agree with, but that doesn't discount the fact I also agree with many here who consider him an @sshole/idiot.

 

[John Connor]

Bill Maher is a fuck headed pussy!

 

[WelshBloke]

This. It's because they contain caffeine, which is considered an addictive substance. All of the Mormon rules against certain substances are due to their being addictive, which can lead to a loss of control.

There's caffeine in chocolate as well, admittedly there's not much but if your god is telling you not to have any how much is too much?

Kind of like the posters here apparently. When was the last time you saw, touched or, could point at honor, love or, regret? Are they any less real for not being easily measured, standardized for all humans or, replicable in scientific experiments? There is an entire world of experiences, perspectives and, questions that science can't even begin to answer and you're calling religious people idiots? There's no idiot like someone who believes they know all the possible answers.

Not sure where you are going with that but you seem to be saying that a codified religion with an anthropomorphic god and a bunch of written stories is the same as an emotion?

 

[88keys]

While some believe the Bible is true in every detail, the majority of Christians know it to be allegory. Lumping all Christians together is rather foolish, disengenuous and, stupid for a comedian who does an elitist prick shtick.

It's hard to do when the stereotypes keep proving themselves to be true .

If you don't want the rest of the world to see you as bigoted assholes, the first thing you should do is stop acting like bigoted assholes.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Bill Maher's schtick is getting old. He just sounds more and more petty the longer he goes on pointing out religious idiocy. Faith and common sense don't coexist well, we get it. Move on.

Bill Maher is an idiotic douche. Would've been better had it been Bill Nye.

 

[88keys]

"Trying to get today’s Republican to accept basic facts is like trying to get your dog to take a pill. You have to give them the truth wrapped in a piece of baloney, hold their snouts shut, and stroke their throats. And then, just when you think they’ve swallowed it, they spit it out.”


He's an asshole, but he's a brilliant asshole.

 

[brandonb]

Noah's Ark is like a single page in the book of Genesis. It's amazing that some still try to invalidate God/The Bible based on a simple 1 page story.

The point of the story is that God wanted to punish those who stray from him. Then he realized the error of his ways when he wiped out humans except for Noah, and he regretted the decision and decided he made a pledge to Noah that he'd never do something like that again.

What was Maher's point of view? (I'm not watching the clip, I'm at work.) I can't imagine any intelligence behind what he says.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Noah's Ark is like a single page in the book of Genesis. It's amazing that some still try to invalidate God/The Bible based on a simple 1 page story.

The point of the story is that God wanted to punish those who stray from him. Then he realized the error of his ways when he wiped out humans except for Noah, and he regretted the decision and decided he made a pledge to Noah that he'd never do something like that again.

What was Maher's point of view? (I'm not watching the clip, I'm at work.) I can't imagine any intelligence behind what he says.

Don't you realize how badly that undermines God's status as an infallible entity that is worthy of your worship? If he can do something as rash as destroying most of land based life and not have the foresight to know that he was going to regret it, what does that say about him? There are other stories in there that either eliminate the possibility of him being benevolent or eliminate the possibility of him being omniscient in addition to being ludicrous in their details.

Maher's point of view was aimed at those who believe that the Noah's Ark story is factual. He went over some of the more ridiculous details of the story while throwing in some snarky remarks. He essentially says that if you believe it, you must be an idiot.

 

[WelshBloke]

Don't you realize how badly that undermines God's status as an infallible entity that is worthy of your worship? If he can do something as rash as destroying most of land based life and not have the foresight to know that he was going to regret it, what does that say about him?

That he has anger management problems and maybe a drink problem?

 

[shadow9d9]

Noah's Ark is like a single page in the book of Genesis. It's amazing that some still try to invalidate God/The Bible based on a simple 1 page story.

The point of the story is that God wanted to punish those who stray from him. Then he realized the error of his ways when he wiped out humans except for Noah, and he regretted the decision and decided he made a pledge to Noah that he'd never do something like that again.

What was Maher's point of view? (I'm not watching the clip, I'm at work.) I can't imagine any intelligence behind what he says.

1. It is a preposterous "story."

2. It means that God is a petulant child that is completely fallible and insanely violent.

 

[brandonb]

Don't you realize how badly that undermines God's status as an infallible entity that is worthy of your worship? If he can do something as rash as destroying most of land based life and not have the foresight to know that he was going to regret it, what does that say about him? There are other stories in there that either eliminate the possibility of him being benevolent or eliminate the possibility of him being omniscient in addition to being ludicrous in their details.

Maher's point of view was aimed at those who believe that the Noah's Ark story is factual. He went over some of the more ridiculous details of the story while throwing in some snarky remarks. He essentially says that if you believe it, you must be an idiot.

Yeah, the old testament is pretty whacked overall. I've read up to Ruth, then stopped reading it because I read Ruth in school (oh the horrors my reading class made me a read a religious story!) and was deciding if I was going to try re-reading it again or skip past it then I stopped there.

If I was Jewish in 6000 BC, I wouldn't follow that God. But when I put it into perspective of how barbarian the human race was back then. I guess it would probably seem fairly normal.

But when I see in the modern world, I'm not sure we've really grown or learned much of anything either.

 

[dud]

Who is this Bill Maher ... and why should I care about what he thinks/says?

 

[shadow9d9]

Who is this Bill Maher ... and why should I care about what he thinks/says?

It doesn't matter who a person is. Either what someone says makes sense or it doesn't. Why should anyone care what anyone else says or thinks? Well, because they might be saying something valid.