38 thoughts on “Bill Maher on the Pope and his church”

  1. Thanks Jerry,

    Bill Marr is particularly funny and satirical in this video and is so telling the truth. Unfortunately, I don’t have Marr’s skills for comedy and satire, so I’ll have to continue to be militantly anti-Catholic.

  2. I didn’t like the comparison of religion to Wikipedia. Unlike religion, Wikipedia tends to become increasingly accurate.

    1. It’s not that bad a comparison: religion has gotten increasingly accurate since the atheists on the internet have started getting in our revisions.

      1. Increasing accuracy thanks to collaborative revision is a characteristic of science.

        Since the atheists on the Internet have started getting in our revisions to religion, it’s become increasingly funny, and I suspect there will come to be less and less of it.

  3. Thought it was a bit weak, lacking any sort of real bite. Don’t think American humour is actually exportable – would advise you to stick to bombing other countries to get your ideas across.

    1. Really, what is the point of your comment except to tar all Americans? It’s quite rude.

        1. 1) Speaking your mind is fine.
          2) If your mind is full of crap, not so fine.

          Your mind, Pogsurf, is oozing the stinky brown stuff. Jerry’s does not. Perhaps you can learn how to clean up your mind?

          1. Are we talking about my mind as some magical thing which is other than my brain? If you are talking about my brain, I’ve seen dissected brains and they are neither brown nor stinky.

            Not meaning to be sexist at all, but I expect you are very good a doing housework (in your own mind/brain) because you are female. Any tips on how I could get mine scrubbed clean?

          2. “Not meaning to be sexist,” but women are good at housework because they’re female?

            Pogsurf, you’re not only rude but sexist, and you will henceforth have to comment at other websites, but not this one.

          1. No, I read it when I first wrote it and I stand by what I said. (Well it probably needs a conditional in there somewhere, but I can’t be bothered to look right now).

            Quick quiz:

            1. how many people has the American military killed by bombing in the last decade?

            2. how many people have been stoned to death in muslim communities in the same period?

            3. which causes the greatest outrage in the land of the free?

    3. Well, I am not American and I thought it was funny. American humour is demonstrably exportable as evidenced by the success of shows like Family Guy, South Park and the Simpsons (to name but a few)on UK TV .

    4. A bit of an a-hole! I don’t live in the US pal, but I am damn grateful for their contribution in lives and dollars in the fight against some seriously dangerous regimes in the last 100 odd years.
      Thanks’ Jerry for that clip – made my day!

  4. The video uploader devianza73 writes in the comments regarding the Youtube bible-quoting godbots invading the thread:-

    “I’m all for a healthy debate concerning the video but what I’m going to start removing are posts from people going on about how Maher will burn in hell, or how he has to find god. It just comes off horribly pathetic. And trust me, bro… if your god does exist.. he stopped taking your messages eons ago. Sorry”

    The non-engagement with the facts displayed by believers is what tipped me off to the con ~ I was only seven years old at the time. Five decades later… I just can’t get my head around how adults can remain attached to the concept of a personal, jealous, vengeful [& yet loving] sky daddy. Weird.

  5. That was very humorous. But i did not understand the joke at 1:30 “There are over a million Catholics just on the back of my gardener’s truck”. Can someone explain?

    2. Probably unfortunately, he is referring to the fact that a large number of gardeners in the United States are Hispanic, and that a large percentage of Hispanics are traditionally catholic. That, combined with the fact that when carting around working people, trucks tend to be overloaded (I know; I was a missionary in Haiti for seven years). Stereotypical, but hopefully at the expense of people who are hiring, and not the workers themselves.

  8. I *loved* his comment on Papal infallibility – “An eternal truth that’s 11 years younger than the escalator”. Brilliant!

    2. Kind of … 

      Wikipedia:

      1. This doctrine [papal infallibility] was defined dogmatically in the First Vatican Council of 1869–1870, but had been defended before that, appearing already in medieval tradition and becoming the majority opinion at the time of the Counter-Reformation.

      2. Nathan Ames, a patent solicitor from Saugus, Massachusetts, is credited with patenting the first “escalator” in 1859, despite the fact that no working model of his design was ever built.

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      1. majority opinion

        I’m guessing Giordano Bruno was a representative member of the ‘minority’.

      2. Ahh….

        Wouldn’t be WEIT if we didn’t split hairs, would it? ; )

        I think Bill Maher’s point, that the ‘eternal truth’ of Papal Infallibility is far from eternal, survives, even if the rather startling example Bill chose to highlight it can be challenged. ‘An eternal truth that’s more recent than Columbus’, maybe?

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