Maher got fired because he said the 9/11 attackers were not cowards? They were evil for killing innocent people and they deserve to burn in hell, absolutely, but they had the balls to suicide into a building.. on a cowardice scale from 1 to 10 that's definitely a zero.
I also like how he defines cowardice as launching missiles that ruined nations' lives across the world while hiding in safety, I agree with that. The US government is up there with those attackers for me, they killed millions, not 2 thousand, of civilians and crippled entire nations.
That dude sounds legit to me now. I disliked him in the past for dedicating so much of his time to make fame off of rehashed religion 'jabs' (I agree with his criticism of the corporation of religion but he needs to lay off that topic), but after this video I can see he knows what sense and justice are.
I can get why people would get pissed at him. The Nazis were terrible people too. But I wouldn't call Hitler a coward. Maher does hit on religion a lot. He is a pretty smart dude and has a lot of good insight and not blindly associated with a single party. He has a show on HBO I watch a lot. It's my favorite of the late night satire shows.
How seriously do you think comedians should be taken?
There was a Twitter storm to cancel Colbert's show after an arguably racist segment against Asians.
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Bill Maher's old show, Politically Incorrect, was cancelled not long after 9/11 when Maher said the terrorists weren't cowards.
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Colbert is a comedian and can kinda say whatever. There's freedom of speech. The public will dictate if they want to hear the message through ratings. I agree with Maher that is does take some balls to hijack a plane and crash it.
I'll be rolling with a lot of Giant Bomb duders the whole time. We'll be at some panels, parties, and probably take over a bar at some point. Not that I'm the supreme lord of Twitter, but I'll be trying my best to tweet out what everyone's up to. Last year us and the staff too over some restaurant and I got really drunk at an open bar and then Vinny and I went into a photobooth.
Male, 21, Utah. I'm not part of a religion anymore. I was a Mormon when I was a child, and my parents were Mormons for most of their lives. But then they left the church after realizing how unhappy they felt being a part of it. And so I didn't have to go anymore, and I've never looked back since. Most of my relatives are still Mormons though, which can lead to some awkward conversations.
As for what I believe now, and keep in mind that I'm only speaking for myself, there is no reason for me to dedicate my entire life to worshipping an entity or being that I haven't the foggiest idea of what he/she/it looks like, except for what's written in a really old book or text that, for all I know, could have been written by a psychotic mad man or a prankster.
I do not totally object to the idea of a god or gods. The universe is a pretty big place after all, and we know almost nothing about it in the grand scheme of things. But if they do exist, I don't think they will be the way we think of them now.
Is there any truth of the Mormon church being a little more intense about members leaving their church?
If you're talking about the actual process of leaving the church, I have no idea how it works. Like I said, I was was very young when we left. But I can tell you that we got a lot of nasty looks directed at us the first year or so after we left. There were also a lot of condescending comments and terrible rumors spread around by people we once considered friends. That wasn't much fun. But they eventually left us alone. As for my relatives, they wouldn't speak to me or my parents for a while, but they eventually got over it too. Now we get along quite well for the most part, which is very fortunate.
That's kinda what I was getting at. Mormonism has a reputation for the things you just described, more so than other religions. But I haven't ever actually spoken to an ex-Mormon myself. So I don't know if that reaction is typical.
Male, 21, Utah. I'm not part of a religion anymore. I was a Mormon when I was a child, and my parents were Mormons for most of their lives. But then they left the church after realizing how unhappy they felt being a part of it. And so I didn't have to go anymore, and I've never looked back since. Most of my relatives are still Mormons though, which can lead to some awkward conversations.
As for what I believe now, and keep in mind that I'm only speaking for myself, there is no reason for me to dedicate my entire life to worshipping an entity or being that I haven't the foggiest idea of what he/she/it looks like, except for what's written in a really old book or text that, for all I know, could have been written by a psychotic mad man or a prankster.
I do not totally object to the idea of a god or gods. The universe is a pretty big place after all, and we know almost nothing about it in the grand scheme of things. But if they do exist, I don't think they will be the way we think of them now.
Is there any truth of the Mormon church being a little more intense about members leaving their church?
Why is it that the video-game community is far less religious than the community at large. I'm an American and i know the GB community has a healthy European mix that skews the numbers, however, purely among Americans the gaming community seems far less devout than the broader community.
I don't have any statistics to support this, but I'm confident the gaming culture is very liberal. The active game community is mostly males in their early twenties. All research I've read is that the bulk of atheism and agnostic folks are in that age range as well.
Left leaning folks are considerably less likely to have faith in a deity. The reason for that is a much larger conversation but if you're curious there's a million things on the internet for you to consume on that subject.
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