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Title: Bill Maher: Christians Have Neurological Disorder
Source: WorldNetDaily.com
URL Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42906
Published: Feb 18, 2005
Author: WorldNetDaily.com
Post Date: 2005-02-18 10:31:24 by Brian S
Keywords: Neurological, Christians, Disorder
Views: 2951
Comments: 76

Says parents 'drill' religion into kids' heads using biblical 'fairy tales'


Posted: February 18, 2005

Television personality Bill Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," says Christians and others who are religious suffer from a neurological disorder that "stops people from thinking."

Appearing as a guest on MSNBC's "Scarborough County" this week, Maher told host Joe Scarborough:

"We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. If you look at it logically, it's something that was drilled into your head when you were a small child. It certainly was drilled into mine at that age. And you really can't be responsible when you are a kid for what adults put into your head."

The former host of "Politically Incorrect" said the lack of enlightenment of so many Americans means the nation actually has more in common with its enemies than one might think.

Said Maher: "When you look at beliefs in such things as, do you go to heaven, is there a devil, we have more in common with Turkey and Iran and Syria than we do with European nations and Canada and nations that, yes, I would consider more enlightened than us."

Maher explained that he was not singling out evangelicals, but was targeting all "religious" people.

"I think the vote in Missouri [rejecting same-sex marriage] and a lot of other states is because people are religious," Maher said. "They don't have to be evangelical, but they're religious. They believe in religion, which as – I think it was Jesse Ventura who had that quote about religion is a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers."

The television host told Scarborough he was convinced evangelicals' influence will wane.

Said Maher: "When people say to me, 'You hate America,' I don't hate America. I love America. I am just embarrassed that it has been taken over by people like evangelicals, by people who do not believe in science and rationality. It is the 21st century. And I will tell you, my friend. The future does not belong to the evangelicals. The future does not belong to religion."

Later in the interview, Maher returned to the childhood-religion theme, comparing fairy tales to Bible stories:

"When you were a kid and they were telling you whatever you believe in religion, do you think if they had switched the fairy tales that they read to you in bed with the Bible, you would know the difference?

"Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion that Jack built a beanstalk today, you would know the difference? Why do you believe in one fairy tale and not the other? Just because adults told you it was true and they scared you into believing it, at pain of death, at pain of burning in hell."

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#5. To: Brian S (#0)

Said Maher: "When people say to me, 'You hate America,' I don't hate America. I love America. I am just embarrassed that it has been taken over by people like evangelicals, by people who do not believe in science and rationality. It is the 21st century. And I will tell you, my friend. The future does not belong to the evangelicals. The future does not belong to religion."

So says the man who one day will wake up in the fires of hell unless he at least changes his hatred of Christians.

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-02-18   17:07:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#5)

I've seen you post on the net a long time, an obviously intelligent person, so I don't understand the power these institutionalized faerie tales have over you (or anyone else).

:)

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-02-18   18:32:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Samuel Gray (#9)

Tis called FAITH, my friend.

Something that is intangible and eternal.

I cannot understand how you can look out over the beauty of this world, or the sweetness of a newborn baby - And yet, deny HIS existence.

Different sides of the same coin, I suppose.

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-02-18   18:42:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#10)

Let's just say it's not so much "his" existence I have a problem with as the Christian "biography" of him. ;)

I suppose I'll see in the end. I drove past a church tonight and they had this sign up that said "Stop, Drop, and Roll Won't Work in Hell..." and I thought again (and not for the first time), if this is all these people got, I'll take my shot in hell.

Besides, I've lost a lot of weight, I get cold a lot easier than I used to. I can take the heat.

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-02-18   18:47:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Samuel Gray (#13)

Let's just say it's not so much "his" existence I have a problem with as the Christian "biography" of him. ;)

Then tell me, what is your take on Him?

;0)

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-02-18   18:49:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#14)

your take on Him?

Short version, He runs a rigged game. He imposes restrictions on those of us created in "his image" while everything he does is permissible because "only he understands the plan." He's JimRob with a better PR team.

Nice work if you can get it.

A friend of mine in grad school gave the best working theory on "God" that I've heard, that he's a colossal game player, that he and his dark half "The Adversary" play these little passion plays all through the universes, throughout time, just for shits and giggles. Next iteration, Satan gets to be the good guy, God gets to be the bad. A Universal Holodeck, if you will.

Even that is too complicated, though.

I acknowledge his existence with the same disinterest He has shown in mine.

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