I stopped watching Bill Maher a long time ago when I watched (about 30 mins) of his film Religulous. I also find a lot of religious beliefs ridiculous but I dont have sneering contempt for peoples faith and/or feel that Im superior to them because I dont share their beliefs. All his film did was pick all the easy targets i.e. the most extreme and ridiculous religious believers and rip the piss out of them. It was the comedic version of a bunch of 10 year olds mercilessly bullying a Down Syndrome kid in the playground. Not big. Not clever. Not funny. For example my mum is religious and holds the ridiculous (in my view) belief that one needs to believe in Jesus to go to heaven. However she spends her mornings and evenings feeding homeless people at her church and generally acts in a loving compassionate way towards other people, who she sees as equal. She just happens to want them to believe in Jesus so they will go to heaven, although she would never try to convert them. She doesnt even try to convert the Homeless people she feeds! What matters is how she behaves, not what she believes and this is the point people like Maher miss. Its pretty obvious from reading his words (just like it is with Dawkins and Hitchins and that other nasty little man Tim Minchin) that he is a hateful fundamentalist bigot, just like the people he attacks, but on the other end of the Faith/Reason spectrum. These celebrity fundamentalist atheists (and no not atheists in general, who i tend to get on fine with) assume a position of moral and intellectual superiority and tar all those who are not atheists as dangerous idiots that need to be converted to their religion of reason. White Male Patriarchal reason, that is! Its almost too hypocritical for words and I find watching any of them spout their bigotry (disguised as debate) nauseating.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:35:55 +0000
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