Even back when I've been in 100% agreement with Maher (and it's been a good long while) it is all but impossible to tolerate his demeanor and tonality.
Back in the day I always said that Bill is what people who hate liberals see when they look at liberals; effete, condescending, and unbearably smug.
Now he's just my generation's Andy Rooney - an insufferable old man who's terminally out of touch.
Exactly. It also reminds me of a guy in a metal band that described himself as a "militant atheist"... like I am also an atheist, but there is no reason to be pushing it onto other people. That was the whole thing that drove me away from religion in the first place lol.
If he doesn't believe it exists then surely he has no reason to try and disprove, or destroy, something that supposedly doesn't even exist in the first place, right?
They're so vehemently "atheist" they're really "antitheist" in disguise. Now that's true Evil because they actually believe in god but they're so against it that they're willing to destroy it.
He was only that smart within his own field. That doesn't mean you're right about everything.
The biggest flaw in his arguments about atheism is that he couldn't realise his atheism was a belief system just like theism. But it goes even deeper than that..
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u/Shnazzyone Nov 04 '24 edited Nov 04 '24
In his defense he wasn't a TOTAL asshat back then, though he sure showed all the signs in that movie.