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Home Front: Culture Wars
God is a "mass murderer": Bill Maher
2014-03-16
Late night comedian Bill Maher told his HBO "Real Time" audience on Friday that God was a "psychotic mass murderer." He made the comments during a conversation on the biblical story of Noah and the upcoming Hollywood version of it that's about to hit the big screen.

"But the thing that's really disturbing about Noah isn't the silly, it's that it's immoral. It's about a psychotic mass murderer who gets away with it, and his name is God," Mr. Maher said, adding, "What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie."
That is why Hollywood doesn't do Noah or Biblical stories accurately. To distort the complexities of God. Accurately, men, even given the ability to live hundreds of years, were inherently violent. May as well be God who just shuts down the human experience and make significant changes to nature while at it if that is how they will end up. Don't blame Him, Billy.
Posted by:Omavising Ebbemp9815

#12  I wouldn't put much stock into somebody who invested in the Mets post-Beltran; in fact less stock than God put in Mahar.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-03-16 16:04  

#11  I bet my soul that whatever the hell made us has a huge sense of humor when I was 12. All the house money is still on that bet.

Posted by: Shipman 2014-03-16 12:42

..imho, without question..
Posted by: Uncle Phester   2014-03-16 14:44  

#10  Little man stamps tiny feet, shakes petite fists!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2014-03-16 12:56  

#9  Yo! Gawd!
Do you know why the human crossed the road? (stop me if you've heard this)
Oh, you have.
Well then, why the fuck did the human cross the road?
Eggs? WTF?
Damn, are you sure?
Eggs is the punchline?
GAWD: It's a dark matter joke.


I bet my soul that whatever the hell made us has a huge sense of houmor when I was 12. All the house money is still on that bet.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-03-16 12:42  

#8  Contract time, Billy? Time to say something outrageous? Get people talking about ya?
Posted by: tu3031   2014-03-16 12:23  

#7  Kill is a statement of fact. Murder is a killing plus a value judgment. All values stem from God. One does not judge Him. He judges you.
Posted by: Iblis   2014-03-16 11:56  

#6  P2k, Extinction has its consequences for sure, many might argue the "upsides".
Posted by: AlanC   2014-03-16 10:49  

#5  No non-metaphorical dinosaurs could be reached for comment. Bill and the rest of us would still be furry little creatures in our ground holes (and, no, not hobbits). Sometimes extinction has its up sides.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-03-16 09:40  

#4  one line of thought goes that, yes, the people of Noah's generation were thoroughly corrupt, all of them but that was while they were required to be vegetarian; after the flood they were permitted to eat meat and since then no mass extinction was required

take away lesson: vegetarianism is bad (see, for example, Hitler)
Posted by: lord garth   2014-03-16 08:16  

#3  He wouldn't say this about Allan.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-03-16 03:58  

#2  Notice he does not deny God, he only passes judgment upon God's behavior.

If it would help Mr. Maher's understanding, perhaps he should think of man's earthly existence in light of the greater span of eternity. A very crude analogy, but something akin to pre-natal "choice."
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-03-16 03:55  

#1  ..imho, Maher is a talentless hack with only (1) good writers/idea persons and (2) a child's uncorrected propensity towards incivility. My parents would have drowned him before he got out of his private grade school..
Posted by: Uncle Phester   2014-03-16 01:13  

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