I love Bill Maher and am grateful we have him. I love his show, and it's the only reason I have HBO. I find him frequently very funny. I do, however, find his anti-religiousness tiresome and offensive. It's the one thing I really dislike about him.
I wrote him once about some anti-Catholic comments he made on his show one night. He absolutely takes no prisoners in his criticism of the Catholic Church and priests. He's not the only Catholic who now hates the Church, and I find this syndrome to be kind of pathological, but that's just my opinion.
I do notice that he goes easy on the Jews compared to other religions, as people have noted above. I'm not sure why. He seems very pro-Israel as well.
As for Maher being anti-Muslim, I think he is guilty of lumping all Muslims in with fundamentalists or radical Muslims. And, I think he ridicules Muslims like he ridicules the Christian Right in this country and people like Michele Bachmann.
He's also been accused of being misogynistic, notably by his buddy, Ann Coulter.
I agree that Maher is religious in his anti-religious beliefs. His atheism is aggressive. But it almost seems passe, something that may have been hip 20-30 years ago.
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I love Bill Maher and am grateful we have him. I love his show, and it's the only reason I have HBO. I find him frequently very funny. I do, however, find his anti-religiousness tiresome and offensive. It's the one thing I really dislike about him.
I wrote him once about some anti-Catholic comments he made on his show one night. He absolutely takes no prisoners in his criticism of the Catholic Church and priests. He's not the only Catholic who now hates the Church, and I find this syndrome to be kind of pathological, but that's just my opinion.
I do notice that he goes easy on the Jews compared to other religions, as people have noted above. I'm not sure why. He seems very pro-Israel as well.
As for Maher being anti-Muslim, I think he is guilty of lumping all Muslims in with fundamentalists or radical Muslims. And, I think he ridicules Muslims like he ridicules the Christian Right in this country and people like Michele Bachmann.
He's also been accused of being misogynistic, notably by his buddy, Ann Coulter.
I agree that Maher is religious in his anti-religious beliefs. His atheism is aggressive. But it almost seems passe, something that may have been hip 20-30 years ago.