Bill Maher: So you believe that when you die you will go to a better place?
Random Religious Freak: Yes. I will be with Jesus.
Bill Maher: But it's going to be better than Earth? This place you go when you die?
RRF: Yes, it doesn't matter if it's in a garbage pail, which I know it won't be, but it doesn't matter because I'll be with Jesus.
Bill Maher: Then, why don't you kill yourself?
RRF: ...
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This kind of shit makes me nuts. Bill Maher is being clever here, using [faulty] logic to trump the "dumb" faithful. In the midst of it he's being the same kind of hateful bigot he's trying to expose. Why is that funny?
If you want to argue that religion is harmful because of the violence or hatred it has led to, fine, there are a million ways to effectively make that argument. Being a dick does NOT make that argument effectively.
Feb 19th
Andrew Largeman: You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone.
Sam: I still feel at home in my house.
Andrew Largeman: You'll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I mean it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.
Feb 11th