Bill Maher & Guests Discuss Religious Fanaticism
BackBill discusses Jesus Camp, and religious fanaticism with Sandy Rios, Reza Aslan, and Bradley Whitford.
Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: September 25, 2006 at 2:35 am
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Length: 00:09:03
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ForThePoets (November 19, 2008 at 6:51 am)
Check out all religions main message exposed to see clearly! Paste/type this in : " logan the skyangel strikes back " Enjoy :)
TimLoganKnows911623 (November 16, 2008 at 5:41 pm)
Puritanical ideology promotes intolerance & ignorance. Studies on religious fanaticism demonstrate that this is a typical characteristic of pre-industrial societies - in fact it correlates very closely with industrialization: as industrialization goes up, religious fanaticism goes down.
2 countries don't follow this trend: Canada & USA. we're like a shattered peasant society. The United States was at the level of Bangladesh in 1980. It was very close to Iran.
2 countries don't follow this trend: Canada & USA. we're like a shattered peasant society. The United States was at the level of Bangladesh in 1980. It was very close to Iran.
TimLoganKnows911623 (November 16, 2008 at 5:41 pm)
Political scientists and others have tried to figure out why this aberration exists. It's one of the many aspects in which the U.S. is unusual, so you want to see if it's related to some of the others.
For instance, the U.S. has an unusually weak labor movement.
Think: there is no other industrialized Western country that doesn't have a labor-based political party, and we haven't had one here since the Populist Party in the 1890s.
For instance, the U.S. has an unusually weak labor movement.
Think: there is no other industrialized Western country that doesn't have a labor-based political party, and we haven't had one here since the Populist Party in the 1890s.
TimLoganKnows911623 (November 16, 2008 at 5:42 pm)
So we have a very depoliticized population and that could be one cause of this phenomenon:
if social and political life don't offer you opportunities to form communities and associate yourself with things that are meaningful to you, people look for other ways to do it, and religion's an obvious one.
if social and political life don't offer you opportunities to form communities and associate yourself with things that are meaningful to you, people look for other ways to do it, and religion's an obvious one.
vicepresidentfru1tly (November 16, 2008 at 9:47 am)
Is the blonde lady the resident punching bag?
halfie25 (November 16, 2008 at 5:45 am)
lol... First off that is "watch" not "wath", and second of course is the video would be to your right, but do check it out. This guy is a looney as the religious "fanatic's"
halfie25 (November 16, 2008 at 4:57 am)
I would like to say that Bill Maher is just as much of a hypocrite as anyone he calls a hypocrite. Wath the video to the left called "Bill Maher lays waste to Religion", and you will see BIll Maher not deny that there is a God. Very Laughable... Some Athiest...
Blessed75 (November 16, 2008 at 2:54 pm)
believing in god and being religious are not the same thing.
fa272 (November 19, 2008 at 11:18 pm)
Bill says he doesn't know. He doesn't claim to "know" that there isnt a god becasue he feels that would mirror the same certainty that religious people have
I do feel bad however for the young women guest who hated her religion as a result of her hate for what her father was going to do to her. However, there are over 1.5 billion Muslims around the globe who are living there lives in peace.