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Bill Maher vs. the "talking snake"

The HBO host and comedian talks about "Religulous," his onslaught against the religious idiocy that threatens to deliver America to Sarah Palin and her fellow "space god" worshipers.

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  • Thursday, October 2, 2008 06:51 AM

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    Also, it should be noted that I'm certainly not defending religion or its resulting "slave morality" that has held mankind prisoner for almost all of known human history.

    I'm just saying he needs to address all of morality if he finds fault with religion in the first place. The only alternative is nihilism (which is more a big metaphysical Q&A session that "Vee belieff in nussingk Lebovshki!"). But, as anyone could predict, he has absolutely no balls and the brain of an insect.

    Isn't this the same man who called the brainwashed religious zelots who flew planes into the twin towers "courageous?"

    Gee, it is almost as if he uses shock value to mask an underlying lack of originality or intellect.

    Oh, and no, war has rarely been "about" religion. It has *almost* always been about real-estate and recently nationalism, of which religion is a tiny part. Religion has just been a way to get the masses to support the great big land grab that is war.

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