This is one of Bill Maher’s best monologues ever! “I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think it’s pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts,” Maher said. This is an important video to share on the heels of Grover Norquist’s threat that “Tea Party #2″ is coming!
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Dennis Therrian: I didn`t hear him saying the Bible is bulls**t. He did say that the founding fathers thought the Bible was bulls**t, and that`s true for most of them if not all.
If that isn`t what you want to believe, then that`s exactly the point that Maher is making. If you want to know what your founding fathers believed, they deserve more than 5 minutes on Google. Go to the library and find the books and essays that they wrote.
Most of the founding fathers were theists, but not Christians. They believed that there must be a creator, but they believed that all religions were false.
By the way, you might find it interesting to compare the beliefs of very well educated people in the 18th century to those of very well educated people in the 2oth é 21st century. Among scientists admitted to the Academy of the Sciences, 93% do not believe in a personal god or in a life after death.
So a lot of people do believe the Bible is bulls**t, I`m one of them and so is Maher. And so were the founding fathers, and the more highly educated a person is, the more likely they are to share that opinion.
Dennis, First, I take offense in your assumption that God is male. Which groups (science and a faction from a religion based outlook that you cite) have proven intelligent design? I’d be interested to know. You also ask “what if God is real? and how would Maher react to his queries about doubting him. Well, isn’t your God all forgiving? I suspect he’d chuckle unless your God is one of those who can’t or won’t forgive, which would be a shame considering that in our Western moral construct we all are fallible. I suggest you read some history about the Greek and Roman religions. Their Gods cared and truly understood human fallacy rather than taking a ‘my way or the highway’ attitude.
How dare you say the bible is bulls**t! I thought you were an intelligent man until I heard you say that! As smart as you are, and you blow it on saying something like that! You sir are a blaspheming poor soul, and I’ll ask God to have mercy on your soul, but I doubt it! The fact that you don’t understand the possibility God is real, shows me you’re not as smart as I had previously thought! I hope you would at least believe there is a possibility there is a God, and the bible is the truth of it, even if it has been a little distorted by mans influence doesn’t mean it’s not real? Think about this for a moment; how is it, we as humans living on Earth are perfectly set away from the sun so we don’t burn, and the air we breath is held in by an atmosphere and isn’t out in space. Also, the air we breath is regenerated by what we exhale to the trees as there oxygen, and we are the only civilization in our entire solar system, and beyond what our best technology can see? Our technology can see billions of other galaxies, and yet we still haven’t saw, or been in contact with any other life forms out there? Remember in science, “you can’t get something from nothing?” Do you know science and a faction from a religion based out-look, the intelligent design team have come together to prove we are made from intelligent design? You should really look into something before you discredit what you might not understand? You’re not a Pastor anyways, right? Maybe you should take some time and find out for yourself what the possibility of life could be? Life isn’t based on what you see, but most people say and believe; if you can’t see it hear it or touch it, it doesn’t exist? We couldn’t hear or touch space for thousands of years and we didn’t even know it was there until an “EYE” was opened to see it; which was our telescope, so before you discredit something, you should really try to find out what the “REAL FACTS ARE” before you set yourself up for failure. What if God is real? What would you say to him if he asked you; “why did you say that about my word of truth and love to you and humanity?” The “WORD” was God, and was with God, so to deny his “WORD” is to deny what spoke you into existence, and to deny a part of yourself. Also you would say; “you are denying yourself as being real!” Just think about what I’m saying?…
Lighten up Dennis. There are so many logical fallacies in your argument that I’m not even sure where you were going. Admitting something is a “possibility” and then stating that a book written by men makes it a truth is ridiculous. Also, Intelligent Design has not, and will never be “proven.” It is based on faith and faith alone, the assumptions are tainted by bias and you know what they say about crappy data in, crappy data out.