Re: 's rejected post

[Guest guest]

My message that was deleted was not spam, I think the deleter just didn't like

the post. However, I do have a copy of it in my SENT folder, so I will attach it

to the bottom of this post. Perhaps it was just one of those freak things.

heaven ***Off Topic*** to Colleen

Please hit your delete button if you are offended by non-Christian writings

Colleen,

Do you watch Bill Maher? He is hilarious when he starts religion....when

you hear him talk about it, it really does sound absurd, following blindly and

not questioning.

Here is a cut and paste:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42906

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. "

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 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. "

Have you read any Hitchens' God Is Not Great: How Religion

Poisons Everything or The God Delusion by Dawkins. You would probably

find them interesting.

I used to be embarrassed to say I didn't " believe " living here in the middle

of the Bible Belt, but when I listen to others or read others who feel the same,

I see that I have to reason to be ashamed of my non-belief in an old bearded sky

fairy or the invisible man in the sky.

I have ALWAYS WANTED to " believe, but my brain just won't let me!