(June 4, 2017 at 6:10 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(June 4, 2017 at 5:50 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: A tempest in a teapot. Ill-advised on his part ... but he never struck me as terribly bright anyway.
Yeah, Bill Maher has been known to vacillate between insightful and idiotic with an ease that's quite frankly terrifying. A lot of Religulous was pretty reasonable (not all of it, of course, but at least quite a bit of it still holds up), however, around the same time, he latched onto the anti-vaxxer movement and even at one point made remarks about how Louis Pasteur repudiated germ theory on his deathbed. He's also worked with PeTA, for what it's worth.
I hated the movie. Sure, he aired out the major arguments against religiosity, but in such a manner that supported, or perhaps provided, society with the atheist-as-asshole stereotype.
He doesn't represent me at all.
