Bill Maher about Religious Fanaticism

[MrBadmeetsevil13]

Who else wants to slap that bitch?

[LacosTacosPacos]

@greenblue49 Good point but bill is looking down on her because she reads fairy tales and hears god supposedly talk to her, she looks down on him when he chooses logic over faith.

[FuckYouLetMeLogIn]

Part of the trouble with religion is that it engenders magical thinking and unthinking submission to authority. That's never a good combination.

[greenblue49]

Bill said that it was condescending for her to suggest that she knew something that he didn't. Is it not condescending when they call her a schizophrenic for her belief that God speaks to her?

[skind9119]

@greenblue49 no

[Sukkii25]

It is not a war only between Christianity and Islam. Islam does not recognise any faith it wants to take over the world. I am not religious and Chrtistians and Catholics and Muslims all do these things in the word of God and it is shit

[muscleman677]

im not hungry

[MyloDude22]

"At 5 I just wanted more out of life." Lol

[Sickopath333]

Yes, read Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis and his critique of religion; it's not as if the majority of his ideas have been found to be.. let's just say lacking by modern psychologists or anything. There's a reason why there aren't many psychoanalysists, even neo-Freudians, let alone classical. There is plenty of research that shows how well-balanced and adjusted religious people are, hardly the sort of findings you'd expect if religion was a delusion.

[caribboy]

That was nice: I am so waiting for you to find Mohamed (in response to the woman's remark about other people being hungry, supposedly for religion)

[opszanski]

Am I the only one who think these people are nutcases (besides maher)? They are tolerant of people giving up their lives for the sake of some BS in some 2000 year old book. Pretend there's an 18 year old that decides to choose a religion, there are literally thousands to join and which ever one he picks he can die for? One random religion that's probably 999999999999999999999999:1 of being true. It's no different than the random religion you grow up with.

[13stevejohnson]

REZA TOTALLY SET HIMSELF UP. YOU OPEN YOURSELF UP TO BS AND DANGER WITH RELIGION, BECAUSE FALLIBLE HUMANS ARE FILLING THAT GAP... THE BIBLE CAN SAY ANYTHING YOU WANT IT TOO...

[13stevejohnson]

ITS MAKE BELIEVE FOLKS, MOVE ON AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE.

[Sweence]

Religious Idiots. My heathen friends will enjoy "Religious Fanatic debates Atheist" on my channel. Brace Yourself.

[BDUBYAUSA]

Bill Maher is odd. While I agree that Christianity should not be forced at all(because forcing someone does not bring about true heart change)..He forces his opinion on the world RELIGIOUSLY! He calls Christians "a joke" for doing the very things he does and says he hates

[cheyenneandlakota]

I think if god meant for any of us to be religious it would have to be buddhism. Do you see buddhists killing people, polluting the earth and forcing their religion on you?

[aryaan77]

@cheyenneandlakota

Buddhism may be perceived as peaceful now, but it has a very violent past too

[cheyenneandlakota]

@aryaan77 really never knew that hmm you talking about the buddhists from Nepal or what?

[whitedevill1911]

Bill Maher is an anti-religious fanatic. He is the other side of the same piece of dog shit.

[SonofSethoitae]

@whitedevill1911 Bill Maher never blew up a building or decapitated anyone for his anyreligious beliefs. He's a far cry from the people he denounces.

[whitedevill1911]

@SonofSethoitae If Bill Maher only denounced the idiots that decapitate children and blow up buildings he would be just like your average religious person. We all agree that these people are insane; the problem with Maher is he trashes any and all that do not agree with HIS opinion. This is the root of fanaticism and is why Maher is an egotistical hypocritical douche.

[SonofSethoitae]

@whitedevill1911 Every human being, every single one of us, is an egotistical, hypocritical douche. You, me, Ghandi, Ron Paul, Martin Luther King Jr. All of us. Hypocrisy is part of human nature. So yes, he is, but that doesn't make many of his points on religion invalid. Bill Maher isn't any more critical of religion than he is Michelle Bachmann, we're just more sensitive to it as a culture for some reason.

Much of religion is ridiculous. But not necessarily worthless, just for the record.

[Fireflygamer]

I am not a christian and I can not understand this woman, I find it very natural and normal to be willing to lay down my life for a friend or even a stranger if they are in danger. In fact just yesterday i took a risked when this violent drunk attack a woman on the bus, I put myself between him and her until the police got there, I could have easily been his next target, but i stepped in anyway because it was the right thing to do, i don't need Jesus in my life to do be willing to do that.

[1tonykirk]

@Fireflygamer check out: "Know Your Enemy" from TheFuelProject. Everything we have been cleverly divided over will become perfectly clear.

The Elite are using the Hegelian Dialectic. "Thesis v Antithesis= Synthesis" or "Problem - Reaction =Solution"

They've financed the extremes of two opposing (and fake) choices to achieve a false paradigm that will bring (their "solution" and version of) "Order out of Chaos".

"The more things change, the more they remain the same".

They own the game.

[drownoble]

Sandy Rios seems to be a typical clueless christian zealot. She says that Christians don't slaughter according to the teachings. She never heard of the Crusades or Spanish Inquisition?

[sweet161402]

Jesus said,"go tell anyone WHO WILL LISTEN,THE GOOD NEWS and anyone who does not hear you,shake the dust off your feet and move on".We are not to force feed others as Christians. It's attraction not promotion.

[slyix9]

Sandy rios bitch

[Sidragrosm]

The late Kurt Vonnegut said it all: "If he were alive, today..? Jesus would be a Humanist."

Of course that begs the question: "Which Jesus?" It varies, depending on which drooling nut case you ask!

[thezombiekiller87]

i love capt crunch

[axblake1]

Soldiers of Delusion

[travellingboy1]

For the truth watch "Frankie Boyle on religion"

[deadguy29]

Bill Maher is not hungry...

[mahina1963]

I 'liked' this, but not soley because of the clip, but more on the quote you wrote on Freud (read...if you can? Priceless! And oh so very true)

[210daved1]

the fanatics on the religious right are almost as extreme as those fanatics on the islamic side . both use fear, violence and hate to further their agenda , the worst part is that most religious people do not condemn those who use violence

[NaturalSelection101]

The God Virus by author Dr. Ray explains everything

[stephen52100]

@darkreaper321 She's confused. Reminds me of a family hiding Jews. When the Gestapo came she, being a Christian could not lie, it cost the lives of the Jewish family. Dragged out and shot. Those were her 'brothers & sisters.'

[stephen52100]

Sorry. left out a word. Jesus did NOT come to Earth to start a new religion. He came to teach Spiritual Laws. People twist scripture to suit them for political, religious reasons. Now we are in the 'birth pain' of labor as we start the Aquirian age. A new beginning. As a woman surrenders her body to give birth, and the newborn changes her life, all mankind will do. And for the better, the greater good.

[stephen52100]

Jesus did come to Earth to start religinions. When he referred to a 'church' it was not about religion, it was about people, not a building. Jesus was pro-life, not to die unless it was self defence OR to help another. (like saving someone from a burning building) He brought in the Christ-like energy at the beginning of the Picean age.

[DaBigCheeseLuigi]

That guy Reza Aslan - everything he said was correct and insightful.

Yet I bet people don't pay as much attention to his views cos he's "just a muslim."

Sad really.

[Forceofhabbit]

Religious people are just people who need to get a real education, until then "ignorance is religious bliss"

[BiGMANJOE32]

To be honest I think the parents should be teaching their kids about jesus not sending them to a total stranger. Wheres the responsibility

[picassopainter2]

@BiGMANJOE32 No, parents should allow their children to decide for themselves what is or isn't bullshit. When you are a child, your parents words are the laws to life... That artificially inflates who is or isn't religious. Wait until they're old enough, and let them decide for themselves what makes sense.

[sushanalone]

@BiGMANJOE32 if you are talking about responsibility and being responsible, is it responsible to not teach the kids about Allah, Shiva, Buddha, Zeus, Jupiter, Thor, and the sea monster god of the east pacific?Is it responsible to make your child eat pizza every day just because you like pizza, or you believe pizza is the only healthy food ever made?Why just jesus,if you want to be responsible.Bull crap.

[sushanalone]

@BiGMANJOE32 i know you will say because you know Jesus is the true God /son or son of himself,or father of himself, whatever.But when you only teach about Jesus to your child, you are just transfusing your doctrine into another person.Where is the responsibility?Its like passing a communicable disease advertently to your child.

[NecrosHun06]

Religion is bad, violent or not, it's still a problem.

[darkreaper321]

The woman is saying that when you are life threatening danger you still can't lie about your faith, That is purely stupid what about those people who depend on you , Giving up your life and the lives of your dependents for something as stupid as faith, What the hell is wrong with these people???.

[richwfd2002]

Sean Faircloth's book: Attack of the Theocrats, how the religious right hurts us all and what we can do about it. He is Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America. Check it out at secular.org and donate. I'm giving 50 bux a month which I know is a pittance compared to what these nutbags, like this woman, give to their churches.

[RuroiniStenchin]

ITS NOT LEGOS....... lego is the plural

[mywotzone]

@RuroiniStenchin Its LEGOS... There is a S on the end....

[silverysnow92]

@7FreelanceDotcom That's not evolution man. Go read up about it before looking stupid and ignorant. I don't mean to be rude, but your comment just... fails. :/

[pwuk]

Well 7dotcom where did tge creator come from?

[13teres]

How did God write a bible?In what language?This woman is so narrow minded.It seems to me like she has  limited capacity for thinking.Wow.No wonder that majority of Americans followed Bush./mostly so called christans.Thank God that Jesus was not a christian

[ReligionMASSillusion]

@13teres corect, and god created the world in 7 days , a day on what planet ???

[ferm65]

@ReligionMASSillusion What we perceive to be a day or the amount of time of what a day is considered now is much more than what an actual day was when the universe and our galaxy was being created so technically it could have been created in "seven days"

[juzdamkrazy1]

@ReligionMASSillusion and why did it take him 7 days? if he is meant to be this all powerful, all knowing being than he should have only had to have snapped his fingers

[Volksmusiker89]

@ReligionMASSillusion Actually, he created the Earth in only six days - he took a nap on the seventh day.

He was like... tired, or something - I don't know. I guess 'all-powerful' has its limits...

[cf19d]

@ReligionMASSillusion No he created everything in 6 days 1st the earth in 4 and then the rest.

[Severe777]

@13teres Why give credit to Jesus? if it wasn't for that crazy cult leader child molester Christianity would cease to exist. Don't thank him, hate him.

[dracohalo117]

@Severe777 Crazy cult leader child molester? Who?

[Severe777]

@dracohalo117 Jesus was crazy and he is a cult leader. And also a child molester... if you believe the banned material from the bible. Gnostic texts.

[dracohalo117]

@Severe777 ...HA! I KNEW IT!!!

[rflooker]

@Severe777

I want to read that, where is it? What text in gnostic?

[Severe777]

@rflooker Uhm, I saw it on the History Channel. Banned Texts from the Bible. You can find it on YouTube. Pretty interesting documentary... I think.

[MAnnaconduit1]

that actor was bullshit has he never heard of the moors, the Islamic army that nearly took over Europe in 730 AD, or the Muslim legions that fought the crusades? Muslims are right up along Christians in that kill count, and in religious oppression as well. don't forget Joan of Ark believed she heard god and she pushed out the tyrannical British, perhaps she was just a crazy bitch and France should really be England part 2 by this logic.

[rydholm]

@MAnnaconduit1 the Conquistador killed about 95% of the population in South America, population eclined from 25.2 million in 1518 to 700 thousand people in 1623.

[MAnnaconduit1]

@rydholm you have me there, however i would go onto say while christian and Catholics stopped killing people a while ago in the name of religion, Muslims continue to kill people today, through sharia law. also we all like to point the finger at religion what about atheists? Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, who combined can match a pretty large sum, but lets go further while religious people kill for religion, those atheists who kill, do it to get rid of any form of competition to their rule.

[scaryninja1693]

@MAnnaconduit1 Atheists don't kill in the name of atheism, Stalin wanted communism to be a religion so yes, he removed other faiths, but he wasn't exactly sturdy in the mind department. Hitler wasn't an atheist by the way, where do you think his hatred of Jews come from? Check the uniforms of Nazi soldiers and read about him a bit more.

I don't agree entirely about the peaceful Christianity myth, people still kill in the name of Jesus (Breivik?), but it's regarded as a 'psychotic episode'.

[Dagens24]

@scaryninja1693 Also, there's no logical pathway from 'I don't believe in god' to 'I have to kill religious people', however if you're a bible beliving Christian and it's the perfect word of god and his word must be followed then there is a logical path from 'apostates should be put to death' to 'kill non-Christians'.

[scaryninja1693]

@Dagens24 What makes me laugh and worries me at the same time is that if religious folk followed their religions properly and to the letter, they'd be worse than Westboro Baptist Church and worse (though only just) than Islamic extremists. The fact is (and it is a fact), that these religious texts are pure evil, even the sweetest versions of 'God' stem from some wives tale told in a far more immoral time.

Religion is poison, people are animals. Last thing we need is our brains fucked with.

[rydholm]

@MAnnaconduit1 another false claim about Hitler, how about reading something about him before making false claims! Here is a quote for you from Mein Kampf, p 65 "Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." And Stalin followed Karl Marx views like a religion, not really an atheist in my opinion, war against the elite. Well, Pol Pot was supported by USA...

[MAnnaconduit1]

SIGMUND FREUD was bat shit, i have taken psychology courses where even the teachers call Freud insane, he only created his theories to explain his own sick fetishes and used examples from history. oh and yes we do not have the freedom to save ourselves by saying whatever we can to survive, you got a fanatic right here bill shoot her.

[JoshSRU]

Books are written by men, not by God- just sayin...

[Acquisto]

a bible in a kids hand is just as dangerous as a hand grenade, one may blow him but the other will turn him into a bigoted piece of shit

[Syntheticxox]

I really want to hear Bill Maher's reaction to the documentary Hell House :3

[ElizabethLCRandom]

That muslim guy on there is hilarious. (keeps watching to find out his name)

[daggerGforcefahrer]

"im still waiting for you to find mohammed" was a killer!

[pallen2323]

The documentary Maher is talking about is freaking scary. Definitely worth watching but immensely enraging.

[Abbadon380]

THIS WORLD WILL BECOME JESUS LAND AND NONE OF THE ATHEISTS CAN STOP IT

[drjekill2986]

@Abbadon380 what happens when you discover it was all bullshit? Remember all flies eat shit. Do you want to be like flies?

[Abbadon380]

@drjekill2986 IT WAS A JOKE

[yatter1]

@Abbadon380 I think islam might disagree with you on that one.

[gooders1002]

@Abbadon380 By that time, All the Atheists would have left this stupid planet to find a new home away from religious nuts.

[Abbadon380]

@gooders1002 im joking sir cant you see the GIANT CAPS WHICH I USE

[MegaPaul71]

@gooders1002 i do hope so..they tell us that we'll go to hell and burn..we'll take one look at the sun before we leave...smile .. and think " one day that things going to throw a shit fit and fry everyone on the planet no matter how much they pray"

[gooders1002]

@MegaPaul71 thats so true is scary.

[blackcreekghost]

Atheist means to not believe in a higher power, there are no rules to atheism such as how Christians have the Ten Commandments, so it is unfair to suggest that communist ideology is a result of atheism. I am an agnostic and believe in democratic socialism based on the principles of altruistic humanism.

[eamon4800]

"im still waiting for you to find mohammad actaully" lol legendary

[janisakironmaiden]

@LAKings777 freud was insane, but a lot of great people did a shitload of coke ;)

[MuseManMike]

Modern neuroscience has a more cogent analysis of what religion is and how it works. I love me my Freud, but the man was plain wrong is so many circumstances.

[JJLaurich]

Freud has been discredited by modern psychology. I'm all for science and am an atheist, but if you're going to pretend religion is absurd based on the claims of an outdated pseudo-scientist who is only relevant in popular culture, you're committing the same error as religious apologists.

[Homesmoker]

@LAKings777 lol cause cocaine has anything to do with it.

[LichQueenKathie]

@zammmerjammer The Oedipus Complex is no longer regarded as a mental illness, but rather a state of mind. It's regarded as a set of emotions commonly related to those with child-like minds (including children themselves). Remember the Superego states; the Oedipus Complex is part of the Child Superego state. So no, it's not a mental illness but it's arguably a poor state of mind to adopt.

[bigdroz1982]

The middle eastern guy & the broad both said that "it is perfectly fine to lay down your life for Jesus" & nobody piped up & said anything! Bill, you missed it buddy. They both said it so nonchalantly, yeah, perfectly fine to lay down your life for Jesus & don't say whatever it takes to save your life in a horrific situation like they described with animals holding you captive (animals because they are terrorist murderers not because they are Muslim). No... SAY WHAT YOU MUST TO SAVE YOUR LIFE!!!

[electbassplayer24]

At 5 you didn't need to be saved kid, next time just fart and say excuse me, bota bing bota bang! yah forgiven:

[Justen1980]

if you ain't ready to die for some old goat herder superstitions you is a punk bitch

[ducati135]

How about just all religion is bullshit - until further notice.

[sf10231016]

Religion is the ultimate tool for mass manipulation.ask any conservative politician and they will explain it to you exactly as they want you to see it.

[reanimated6]

It's a short way from crazy to genius.

Though I must add, the psychoanalysis is not falsefiable and therefor pure crap. Atleast as a method. But many of Freuds arguments are solid, and an awesome platform to do science on. Am I wrong? =)

[ReligionMASSillusion]

@LAKings777 In his words "The gods retain the threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them." (pg. 19)

[starwarsgeek8]

@ReligionMASSillusion Actually Freud's view of religion was indeed that it was a primitive human fallacy, but that it resulted not from the Oedipal complex, which regulates psychosexual development, but from a "feeling of the oceanic," a desire to be connected to all life and all humanity (or at least to fellow members of your religion). Read Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents," which was published in 1930, 3 years after your bible and explains his revised view.

[ReligionMASSillusion]

@LAKings777 Psychoanalysis of religion Religion is an outshoot of the Oedipus complex, and represents man's helplessness in the world, having to face the ultimate fate of death, the struggle of civilization, and the forces of nature. He views god as a manifestation of a child-like "longing for [a] father." (pg. 18)

[17thSHIT]

@ReligionMASSillusion We want God now because of this Freud shit, but because we create things and thing that things must be created.

[sparkyj99]

~~> I watched the documentry and it was strange... So much for turning the other cheeck...

[rodeo179]

maher is an anti-theist. plainly being anti religion is not going to resolve matters as millions follow beliefs. freud would have stressed on mutual respect as many psychologists accept the benefits of religion and belongingness. And the bitch is stupid. It's extremism in all ideologies. Maher sounds as zealot as the mullahs who refuse to accommodate others

[Gundamseedsucks]

@rodeo179

More the reason why bill maher is justified there is no reason to accommodate people's stupidy who belive in

an imaginary friend and are quite delusional like michelle bachman saying god talk to her. Fucking theist

are so retarded and reject the basic foundation of science. We have conquered the heavens with the space

exploration you would think religion would already vanish.

[rodeo179]

@Gundamseedsucks - you prove my point about anti theists being as hard core as the other extreme. this attitude won't help -- learn to share