Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Why I Stopped Watching Bill Maher

For years now I have watched and admired Bill Maher. Although his ability to present a joke is not the best, his material was superb. Nothing funnier than a joke that blames everything on religion (sad but true). I watched his recent movie, "Religulous" with a big smile on my face, ear-to-ear. His idea about how we claim that we are the best people in the world when we have not proven it resonates greatly with me. His famous claim that they don't hate us for our freedom but they hate us because our armies are in their countries and our oil companies are running the show cannot be more true. I could keep going on and on about how much my moral beliefs aligned with those of Maher but this would be a lot longer than a one page blog.

Recently I was alerted to one disturbing fact about Bill Maher, his Jewish bias. On many occasions Bill Maher has stated over and over that he is a big supporter of Israel and in fact Judaism nearly escaped his comedy in "Religilous." I have no problem with Israel supporters, what I do not approve of is a self-proclaimed atheist who takes every chance available to mock religion but praises and supports a country built on religion. Israel is not just a country for Jews, it is a Jewish country based on Jewish law. How can you mock Evangelicals for their magic underwear belief but turn around and praise an entire country that does not have an official map because the Torah says that its map is from the Niles river to the Euphrates river (that spans four other sovereign nations -Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq-).

I do not have a doubt in my mind that Bill Maher is an intelligent atheist. I do not think that he is a secret Mosad spy trying to brain wash us nor a closet Jew, but I think that he is clinging (maybe subconsciously) to his mother's religion or maybe just a little more acceptance to Israel because of its similarities to us. Sadly that is one form of belief Bill Maher is not free of yet.


6 comments:

  1. What about his refusal (time after time) to discuss the possibility that 911 was not done by Al Qaeda despite all the evidence pointing in that direction?

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  2. I never noticed his bias but I will pay more attention from now on!

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  3. too many people are too sensitive about too many things these days...

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  4. Hey Mr.Anonymous, did you not see the thousands of innocents that died in the Gaza strip 6 months ago. Every human rights group in the world is screaming "war crimes" yet our U.S. goggles are not trained to see that.

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  5. I will add:

    Read this other blog post by Fearful Thought and then make your decision on how Jewish extremist are less extreme than Christian and Muslim extremists:

    http://fearfulthought.blogspot.com/2009/03/modern-day-crusaders.html

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  6. [i'm "mr anonymous" (miss, actually) that posted at 9:39am]
    to T.L., point taken, but notice i said "doesnt seem" populated, or "never seen a website" with religious hate. bill maher is a political commentator, probably just as much (and as far in his own direction from the center) as ann coulter. he reads, watches, and distills it into his own version of how-it-happens. if christians have websites advocating the murder of doctors and homosexuals, and al qaeda has websites showing beheadings, but jews have rabbis quietly recruiting soldiers one on one, who do you think bill is noticing? [and some people think all this quiet means they're up to something ("the jews own the media")] bill is just as lenient to buddhists, and look how 'charming' china can be. i saw religulous, and i think condemns the foolishness of religions equally, but specifies examples that wanted our attention to begin with, and were in turn made news by people eager to report it. bill kinda made a career our of pointing to the TV and saying "did you just see that bullshit?" and i only meant to explain bill, not take a side on israel. i cant figure taking sides on israel when i'm a white american living on stolen land. peace everyone

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