Basically, he makes the point that it is impossible to know the answers to all the big questions of God and the afterlife.
That is because Maher is too busy living a life of stardom, partying and getting laid to seriously consider reality. Contemplating "the big picture" takes a great deal of effort. Mocking takes no time at all.
There is absolutely no proof that any religion can offer that they are right.
Christianity has many, many great thinkers that have establsihed the reality of Christ Jesus. Start with Mere Christianity and go from there. Most anti Christians will never study a day in their life to understand the Christian position on reality.
Instead, the only real way to be right is to just admit that we do not know.
Yet we do know many, many things. None wipe away the reality of Christ Jesus.
He also makes the point that faith (that is, the following of religion without any proof) is not really a good thing. Why would following something with no proof be a virtue?
The idiocy of caliming that Christians follow "no proof" has been thoroughly debunked from Lewis to Leee Strobel. Christians have not hidden from science either. Read some Hugh Ross.
Also, religions are responsible for so many wars, hatreds, arguments, crimes against women, and deaths.
Try to prove that with using real history and see the idiocy of that as well. Non belief in God has caused thousands and thousands of times more deaths. Do the research and take a calculator with you. I have challeneged many atheists to give me numbers and it is enlightening to see them crumble.
The good that comes from them is by far outnumbered by the bad.
That is a statement that is so absurd that it is dismantled by reality. "Christian" reality is that hospitals and universities flowed from "that religion." And we can mention the hundreds of millions of humans that are TRULY cared for BY Christians. HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS!!
He also points out that, if you take the ideas of religion and just look at them, they are kind of crazy. Would you believe in a virgin birth, resurrection, or turning water into wine if it were not taught as religion?
Cloning is birth without sex. Resurrection is a common occurence that anyone with CPR "knowledge" can show, and now, even "dead" organs of a dead person can be brought "back" to life in another human. And "wine" IS the result of it being turned from water into wine. Even grape juice is water filtered and flavored by the grape itself.
God doesn't interject "miracles" that often anyway. There always seems to be a good reason for it. Just like His children do. Why aren't atheists destroying candy and junk food factories?
They greatly cause suffering. Why do atheists ignore the plight of the suffering and give all they have to the poor? Id Maher "on a mission" to do away with the suffering of mankind? Hardly. He's looking for riches and young women with big boobs. And many times, with "supernatural" boobs. It should be the atheists fighting against plastic surgery. Another supernatural event.
It is rational to believe that if humans can "DIS" cover how to do this or that, that the Creator of all things can do even more. Miracles are just intervention acts. We see that everyday in real life. Why not allow a heart attack victim to die "naturally?"
Yet we reach for the supernatural to save them. Putting leg arteries in a chest (by-pass surgery) is a supernatural act.
It is supernatural to bring a weaker individual "back" from the dead. An unconsious person with n o heart beat cannot survive without intervention that is outside of nature. YET, we are driven to do it time and time and time again. Going against the naturalm every single time.
Why do humans care when another person dies? You do not see gravestones for fallen mice, victims of murderous and literally bloodthirsty owls.
The fact that God is NOT a Puppet Master aligns better with what reality shows us in parenting and life itself. No child wants to live exactly as its parents "demand." EVERYONE wants to be free. Animals show just the opposite, they run to conformity. Why are humans outside of nature on this?
Atheism acts like an unruly and irresponsible child. The Prodigal if you will.
No, because it does not make sense. So why do people still believe it?
Why do people "feel" they want to know who their "real" parents are when they are adopted? There is a drive within us to know our origins and our originator.
What is stupid is 0 x 0 = the seen and unseen universe. Our senses show and prove otherwise. Atheism like Maher's boils down to spoiled children behavior.
Also, if you look at the basic moral premises of most religions, they are remarkably similar, and remarkably obvious.
Proof of the God gene. Why aren't people born pure atheist? Why has history proven that all peoples gravitate towards a deity and not away from it. Atheism is a supernatural path.
Do you really need God to tell you that killing and stealing are wrong? Couldn't we have figured it out on our own?
We do. If you take children in a playground that know nothing of morality, you will see the tougher kids ruling the playground.
But you will see the weaker ones crying about it and "somehow" knowing that being a victim of inequality and violence is "somehow" wrong.
Why don't the little wimpy children accept their place within the evolutionary scale? Justice proves deity, not the other way around. Justice to nature is the strong dominating the weak. We see humans oppose this time and time again. Justice is a supernatural act.
He also gets into the evolution/creation argument.
0 x 0 = Maher's creation. That is idiocy proclaimed. Evolution means I can take everything I want to from Bill Maher because I am far stronger than that guy. THAT is evolution. Maher would call a cop for justice to be implemented and to get his belongings and woman back. That is against evolution.
Humans appear (provably) to exist outside of the notion of evolution.
You do not see gazelles fighting for their rights not to be victims from lions.
He ends by pointing out the more violent natures of religion.
People kill people. The people being killed don't like it. Far more people are killed by the Godless or the anti-God, than by the religious. Ask the Tibetans and the Russians, and the Vietnamese and the Cubans and the Chinese. Oh you can't. Their dead.
Religion has brought us books, scholarship and places to study all of life.
He talks about the apocalypse and how everyone seems to be ok with the idea of the world ending violently, possibly with war or nuclear weapons.
Does he mention Global Warmingites? Secularism is trying to find cures for everything
precisely by promoting doomsday. Even Botox shots are out of fear of "natural consequences" and to avoid them.
Why not realize the truth of evolution and let those that die deserve their "natural" fate? Death is nothing but a weeding out of the weak and a cleansing of the worthless. Those that survive and thrive are the only important thing.
THAT IS EVOLUTION. Why do atheists look for cures for diseases that bring relief from human overpopulation? Let "nature" take its course and allow the strong and healthy to enjoy everything?
And please . . . why abortion? Evolution finds that insanity. Only the weak or someone elses child should be aborted BUT ONLY to make room for someone elses child.
THAT IS EVOLUTION.
Abortion for convenience is antithetical to evolution.
How can it ever be a good thing for the world to end?
Ask the dinosaurs. Er, I mean ask a human. They would have been consumed quickly by dinosaurs if the two lived in the same town.
The fact that we have created the means to destroy the world before we decided that destroying the world isn't the best idea scares me.
Secularists are working on smart bombs as we speak. Is MIT a religious school?
Whether you agree with him or not, you have to admit he makes some good points.
Agree with him on the fact that most people are ignorant about reality. Start with Bill Maher and "move on" from there.
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