A MUST watch clip from Bill Maher on voting and religion...

[A Theist]

This is 3 points of agreement. This must stop.

Your bible is bullshit.

Finally, back to normal. Life is good...good times, good times.

[Minimalist]

Whew!

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

The sweeping generalisation that believers are irrational, crazy or stupid is bigoted nonsense.

One really should try not to judge all believers by those who tend infest atheist forums and the dropkicks who make the news. Most believers I run across in real life seem to be sane enough,

Thank You.

Please don't thank me,I don't include you.

PS: IF you are going to quote me, kindly do so in context,as in this case it makes a difference to the meaning.:

Most believers I run across in real life seem to be sane enough,until religion comes up.

[A Theist]

Please don't thank me,I don't include you.

Sure thing, mate. I won't. I'll take it back.
You're a conceited self-centerd arrogant pompous ass. Feel better now?

[downbeatplumb]

Bill Maher is a bit tediously ranty after a while, but he's basically right. It's scary what the people running America (or Britain, in the case of Tony Blair) actually believe.

Yeah but Blair didnt tell us he was a nut till he left office.

I would still have voted for him as his opposition was the naz....err I mean tories but would have done so with a heavy heart.

[thesummerqueen]

Bill Maher IS an ass, and a pretentious prick. He's also rib-crackingly funny at times.

But since we're all agreeing that he is a comedian and not a philosopher, maybe recognize that he is speaking in a comedian's language: exaggeration. George Carlin had a bit on that as well - atheists had "their" comedian a while before Maher got Real Time. Although I think it's ridiculous to say either of them is an "atheist's" comedian. That's like saying Lewis Black is a democrat's comedian, or a republican's. Maher's capable of making fun of people in a completely non-religious context...religion's just too rich a minefield not to detonate 1 or 2 thousand joke bombs.

[Minimalist]

But since we're all agreeing that he is a comedian and not a philosopher

I prefer comedians to philosophers.

[thesummerqueen]

But since we're all agreeing that he is a comedian and not a philosopher

I prefer comedians to philosophers.

On that point, we completely agree.