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bill maher on the pope
Published Apr. 21, 2008
Let me be clear -- I'm not commenting for or against the "New Rule" presented here. I just wanted to throw it out there and see what people had to say. If you don't watch Bill Maher (and I'm assuming so many do not), he does these "New Rules" at the end of his show that are written with humor and presumably by others. (When the writer's strike happened, the show quit doing New Rules.) They are supposed to mix humor with an honest take on things going on in the world. He got blasted recently for this Rule less than two weeks ago:
Bill Maher:
And, finally, New Rule: Whenever you combine a secretive compound, religion and weirdos in pioneer outfits, there's going to be some child-f-ing going on. In fact, whenever a cult leader sets himself up as "God's infallible wing man" here on earth, lock away the kids.
Which is why I'd like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound. And this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. [photo of the Pope shown]
That's right. The Pope is coming to America this week, and, ladies, he's single! Now, I know what you're thinking: "Bill, you can't be saying that the Catholic Church is no better than this creepy Texas cult! For one thing, altar boys can't even get pregnant."
But, really, what tripped up the "little cult on the prairie" was that they only abused hundreds of kids, not thousands all over the world. Cults get raided. Religions get parades. How does the Catholic Church get away with all of their buggery? VOLUME, VOLUME, VOLUME!
If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you "Pope."
It's like if you can't pay your mortgage, you're a deadbeat, but if you can't pay a million mortgages, you're Bear Stearns, and we bail you out. And that's who the Catholic Church is, the Bear Stearns of organized pedophilia. Too big to fail.
When the - when the current Pope was in his previous Vatican job as John Paul's Dick Cheney - he wrote a letter instructing every Catholic bishop to keep the sex abuse of minors secret until the statute of limitations ran out. And that's the Church's attitude: "We're here, we're queer, get used to it."
Which is fine. Far be it from me to criticize religion. But, just remember one thing: if the Pope was, instead of a religious figure, merely the CEO of a nationwide chain of daycare centers where thousands of employees had been caught molesting kids and then covering it up, he'd be arrested faster than you can say, "Who wants to touch Mister Wiggle?"
What do you think about what he's saying about the Pope? Fair? Blasphemous? Out of line? Funny?
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GOLO member since March 18, 2008
April 22, 2008 8:26 p.m.
not according to some, apparently...
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April 21, 2008 4:09 p.m.
April 21, 2008 3:38 p.m.
April 21, 2008 3:29 p.m.
GOLO member since August 22, 2007
April 21, 2008 2:01 p.m.
When we have law groups that fight for the rights of pedophiles and gay activists as well as other social scumbags; we have a problem. We put the agenda of the mentally ill in front of the issues and agenda or the majority of Americans, we see a degradation of society.
Eventually it will come to a point when we will be fighting these people with guns rather than words because those who know that placing a immoral agenda in front of the people and expect them to accept it by force is doing nothing more than ticking people off.
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April 21, 2008 1:53 p.m.
GOLO member since November 21, 2007
April 21, 2008 12:41 p.m.
Maher is a comedian. Comedians are allowed to make jokes these days, right?
April 21, 2008 12:26 p.m.
When you start like that it makes the rest hard to read.
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April 21, 2008 12:14 p.m.
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April 21, 2008 11:55 a.m.
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