BILL MAHER: Comic's neurological dysfunction cured by filthy lucre!

Bill Maher hates your (fill in the blank) religion | The Big Picture | LAT

Bill Maher, ex-Catholic, ex-Jew, now religion-mocker, says if ...

“... you believe this stuff [then] you are crazy, at least in one area of your life.”

"... you’re religious, [then] it means you believe in some crazy stuff. And at that point you don’t look reasonable."

Maher has produced a movie called, "Religulous"; a mocking, taunting, condemnation of anything religious. Maher, a mediocre comedian and shallow, liberal, social commentarian, is of the opinion that "[all] religion is a big crock of spit."

The comedian is a gold medalist in the hate category of life ... yet he, like all Americans, is protected by our national doctrine concerning free speech ... and thank God he is.

Indeed, Maher is a pristine example of why "hate crime" laws are useless; they don't work against those among the rich and powerful.

It isn't that he directly encourages others to hate of Christians or Christianity (he is careful to say that he is not telling people how to think, just that they should think); no, he's content to stir the hatefilled cauldrons of his audience's hearts.

However, by doing this without restraint or wisdom, Maher proffers de facto encouragement to those who already hate Christians and Christianity, or have religiophobic tendencies, to proactively respond to their deleterious emotions ... like a gun dealer who feeds guns to White Supremacists, then proclaiming innocence when the weapons used in a real hate crime.

You are challenged, if you have the stomach for it, to go to the LAT article and scan the comments at the end. There are some commenters who make the brain damaged religionists Maher hates so much sound like Einsteins.

Bill Maher, Christianity,
Religion, Religulous

HOLLYWOOD: Brideshead Revisited refurbished!

Chuck Colson has been to the movies and would like you to avoid the negative portrayals of Christians in Brideshead Revisited ...

On the surface, with its period settings and costumes, the new film Brideshead Revisited looks like a faithful adaptation of the classic novel by Evelyn Waugh. Underneath, it is anything but faithful. On the contrary, it presents a deeply flawed and inaccurate picture of the Christian faith that Waugh embraced.

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Even the New York Times got it right in its review of the movie. And I quote: “In Waugh’s book . . . religious commitments and social relations were part of a thickly detailed, complicated and ancient lived reality. . . [T]his is what makes ‘Brideshead Revisited’ live and breathe as a novel. None of it registers with any force in this lazy, complacent film, which takes the novel’s name in vain.”

That is why the film is not worth your time. If your friends invite you to see the movie, instead invite them to read the book with you . . . so you can remind them that the Christian faith is not about guilt, but about grace.

CW agrees the entertainment industry has the right to produce all the material it wants to and the law allows ... and present it however they wish ... our only point is that they would not use the same nuances or insinuations on blacks, American Indians, Jews, or (Allah forbid) Muslims.

Go to Breakpoint for complete article ...
HT: The Black Kettle

Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism,
Christianity, Cristophobia,
Hollywood, Religion