Is Bill Maher serious?

[_dartagnan]

Maybe it's more like saying UFO claimers are crackpots, but there may be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

Well, Maher ridiculed a host of The View when she said she prays to God and that God answers. That doesn't sound like someone open to other possibilities. Maher takes the position that anyone who is religious has a mental disorder, and he isn't kidding about that either.


GoodK, I'll take that as a no?

Despite your claim to the contrary, you cannot produce any reputable scholar or Egyptologist to confirm your rant about Horus and Jesus?

Didn't think so.

[_dartagnan]

Is there no end to your stupidity? You're trying to convince us that was just a theory in that pea-sized intellect of yours?

What "theory" are you even talking about? I said it is a double-standard that atheists feel that it is OK for them to say why people believe in God, but at the same time if a theists does the same, then they get all indignant and cry about bigotry.

My original comment was to prove my point using the negative reaction of the atheists here, and as expected you played your part well and said exactly what I knew you'd say. You called me an idiot and a bigot for doing the same exact thing Maher does. LOL! So how can you possibly complain that I called him an idiot and bigot?

You're just too stupid to realize you've been used to prove my point.

So you're admitting you're a bigot, since you just dictated with certitude why atheists disbelieve? At least that's a step in the right direction.

I believe most atheists don't believe because they haven't had much of a reason to believe. The radical atheists like Maher and Dawkins, however, disbelieve for other reasons.

Go find a quote of mine where I dictate with certitude why theists believe in god. I'd be really interested in that.

You've said it in the past that anyone who believes in God is stupid by default. I don't know what the exact wording was so I have no way of searching it out. While it doesn't state why people believe in God, it declares all of them to be stupid for doing so.

[_GoodK]

GoodK, I'll take that as a no?

Despite your claim to the contrary, you cannot produce any reputable scholar or Egyptologist to confirm your rant about Horus and Jesus?

Didn't think so.

Take it however you want. Continue asking and answering your own questions for all I care. I'm sure it'll be only a matter of time before you accidentally call yourself an idiot.

I didn't "rant" about Horus. I am not an Egyptologist, nor do I pretend to be a religious scholar like that Kevin guy does.
If anyone is guilty of ranting, it is you.

I directed you towards a website that you dismissed right off the bat. Surprise.

Why don't you think that Massey is a scholar? Or Tom Harpur?

Why would you sit there with a straight face and pretend that there are no parallels between the Jesus myth and the Horus myth?

[_Trevor]

Well, Maher ridiculed a host of The View when she said she prays to God and that God answers. That doesn't sound like someone open to other possibilities.

Like the existence of a deity that does not interact with humankind?

[_Some Schmo]

What "theory" are you even talking about?

And so it begins (as always), where dart can't remember from one post to the next what he's said. He must isolate the only post he has at hand, because that's as far as his attention span extends, and because it's suits his purpose.

I said it is a double-standard that atheists feel that it is OK for them to say why people believe in God, but at the same time if a theists does the same, then they get all indignant and cry about bigotry.

Yes, but by saying so, you're grouping me in with all atheists. And the bigotry goes on...

My original comment was to prove my point using the negative reaction of the atheists here, and as expected you played your part well and said exactly what I knew you'd say. You called me an idiot and a bigot for doing the same exact thing Maher does. LOL! So how can you possibly complain that I called him an idiot and bigot?

Yeah, that would be stupid if I made that complaint. Since I didn't, you're the one left looking like the idiot you are.

You're just too stupid to realize you've been used to prove my point.

Again, this is based on a false assumption, and again, you demonstrate your own idiocy. You're just too stupid to realize you've missed the point.

I believe most atheists don't believe because they haven't had much of a reason to believe. The radical atheists like Maher and Dawkins, however, disbelieve for other reasons.

Well that's new, coming from you. I like how you're backtracking to make it appear that you're not a bigot, but all along had the grand scheme to make a point about atheists. Unfortunately, you're audience knows you well enough to understand you're full of sh*t.

Incidentally, Maher said just last night in an interview I saw that he isn't an atheist. Should I believe you or him about his beliefs?

You've said it in the past that anyone who believes in God is stupid by default.

Prove it.

I don't know what the exact wording was so I have no way of searching it out. While it doesn't state why people believe in God, it declares all of them to be stupid for doing so.

Since I never said any such thing, this isn't true. So you are a bigot (or a liar... take your pick. I tend toward both). You made a claim/judgment about atheists and it's not true of all atheists. I rest my case.

[_dartagnan]

Any parallel that exists is meaningless. Most of the ones used by the idiots have been thoroughly debunked.

Continue to be the butt of the joke if you want. No Egyptologist agrees with your uneducated assessment. Harbur and Massey are not Egyptologists. Massy did Egyptian stuff as a hobby in the early 20th century. Little of what he claims to have "translated" from the Book of the Dead is confirmed by modern scholarship, including the dung he invented about Horus/Christ parallels.

[_Trevor]

Any parallel that exists is meaningless.

In what sense?

[_dartagnan]

And so it begins (as always), where dart can't remember from one post to the next what he's said. He must isolate the only post he has at hand, because that's as far as his attention span extends, and because it's suits his purpose.

Well, go ahead and point to this illusive "theory" I mentioned.

Yes, but by saying so, you're grouping me in with all atheists. And the bigotry goes on...

I didn't say all atheist. The stupidity goes on...

Yeah, that would be stupid if I made that complaint. Since I didn't, you're the one left looking like the idiot you are.

I didn't say you made that complaint. I said you can't complain. And you called me a bigot and an idiot for doing exactly what Maher does.

this is based on a false assumption, and again, you demonstrate your own idiocy. You're just too stupid to realize you've missed the point.

No false assumption. You did exactly what I knew you (or some others) would do. It was hilarious. Now you're pissed off about it. Oh well.

Well that's new, coming from you. I like how you're backtracking to make it appear that you're not a bigot, but all along had the grand scheme to make a point about atheists.

There is nothing grand about my little social experiments. And I never said "all" atheists. Either leran to read, or just stick to books with big pictures.

[_dartagnan]

In what sense?

The sense that it doesn't even begin to make Maher's case that the entire Jesus story was an invention from Horus stories.

[_Trevor]

The sense that it doesn't even begin to make Maher's case that the entire Jesus story was an invention from Horus stories.

Point granted.