Do some homework ;-).

Your religion (Christianity) is a bastardization of "Messianic Judaism" (the crazy old testament stuff) and Mithraism (a "Gnostic" religion which was highly (& most) prevalent among the roman legions around the time of the reformation).

Virtually everything positive you allude to in the Christian teachings originally come from Hermeticism and other such ancient "Gnostic" traditions.

Jesus (that is to say "Yeshua ben Yosef") as portrayed as a mortal man is a fabrication at best (and outright fraud at worst).

The "Christ" however has been around for a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooongass time before the name "Jesus" ever hit the scene . This stuff goes back to the Greeks, Egyptians, Babylonians, Cannanites etc.

And that not even mentioning The Buddha, Zoroaster, Lao Tzu etc. etc. all of whom predate your Jesus by quite some centuries and preach many of the same fundamentals.

Ditch the Dogma and try out the approach of some other religions, you'll quickly find that underneath all the silly myths there's certain things they all have in common (to a greater and lesser extent). You'll also I hope quickly start to realise that the three major "Exoteric religions" (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) are by this stage corrupted to the point of being barely serviceable and a mere shadow of their "Esoteric" counterparts.

Then again you could always just pull the faith card on me

Love is the law...

while i agree with what he's saying, i don't think his argument is too convincing.
replace him with somebody who is promoting religion and it would be equally strong.

i'd like to see him to actually argue/debate somebody who's using the "faith card".

>> ^crillep:
FAITH CARD! YOU LOSE! END OF DISCUSSION! w00t!


It's like Godwin. You lose by default.

FAITH CARD! YOU LOSE! END OF DISCUSSION! w00t!

How can people listen to Bill Maher and hate Bill O'Riley at the same time? They are exactly the same. They both use rhetoric and dogma from their respective political parties to spew crap over crap they are in denial about.

What exactly is Maher in denial about?

What he says about religion is absolutely TRUE. Any time someone tries to nitpick anything about a religion, they DO wave their 'FAITH CARD' and try to insinuate that we have no right to question what they're doing because it's all in the name of what they believe. And yet they are allowed to say that Atheists are untrustworthy etc. because we 'don't believe in anything'.

I personally didn't know about this documentary before this vid, but I'm very interested in seeing it now. Religious groups the world over are trying to FORCE their agenda on others, and that's just not right.