>> ^gorgonheap:
Yes yes, ALL religions PUSH there ideals on people. Are you serious? You base your judgments off religious extremism and not the overwhelming majority? Bill Maher is taking a small cancerous part of religion and making it into a mountain of evil.


When the Moral Majority and such made a lot of noise years ago I thought the same way, but rather than act like the fringe I thought they were they and their type gained a bunch of power over the years. When they put a President in office who started to mix Federal money with faith based programs and the reports we've heard from our military schools started coming out I was getting pretty concerned that it was getting out of hand. And when they got more and more vocal about Constitutional amendments to bring law into line with the bible then they managed to get gay marriage amendments passed in multiple States it stopped looking much like a fringe. It takes majorities to pass those laws, if they could pass those it's time to stop ignoring the other threats from them as well.

If there actually is some rational 'overwhelming majority' it's about time they stood up and got heard. Don't fuck with my Constitution for religions reasons and I won't fuck with your religion. Start to look like a threat and we'll have to deal with it somehow.

>> ^Farhad2000:
You are actually comparing Bill Maher to Bill O'Reilly?


I'm crazy! Next thing you know I'm contrasting Bill Clinton and Bill Gates... and then Bill Bellamy and Bill Shakespeare... I can't be stopped!

>> ^gorgonheap:
Yes yes, ALL religions PUSH there ideals on people. Are you serious? You base your judgments off religious extremism and not the overwhelming majority? Bill Maher is taking a small cancerous part of religion and making it into a mountain of evil.


You, gorgon, are an enabler. The extremists are the ones causing the problems, but they would not survive without the permission of the moderates. If the extremists walked away when they saw the "no solicitors" sign on my door, I wouldn't care what they believe. But they don't. They are trying to get their bogus beliefs made into law, to force the rest of us to live the lies they embrace. They want to get their beliefs into public schools, to stop our children from thinking too much and figuring out their BS.

You, the moderate, say nothing. I will not stand for it, and I will absolutlely lump you in with the Mormons, Evangelicals, Scientologists, and Islamic Terrorists, because you do not stand up to them and say "I may believe some of the same things you do, but you have no right to push your beliefs on others. Keep your faiths in your homes and churches."

Until the moderates get off their asses and help us put down the extremists, you are every bit as guilty.

>> ^gorgonheap:
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.


Maher is thoughtful, rational, and occasionally witty. Pretty much the opposite of O'Riley. I will agree, however, that Maher is getting a little harder to listen to, a little more shrill than he used to be. I think it's a side effect of beating his head against the brick wall of the Religious Right. He may be in denial about the fact that some people just refuse to listen to reason.