Bill Maher terrifies Bill O’Reilly: An atheist has the Fox News host running scared

[DonViejo]

What flabbergasts O’Reilly & Coulter is nonbelievers are no longer keeping mum about Christianity's rank stupidity

JEFFREY TAYLER

Refuting the likes of Fox News’ popular talk-show host Bill O’Reilly and the razor-tongued television pundit and spewer-out of bestsellers Ann Coulter may seem pointless. They say the same things time and again to Fox’s mostly white, badly informed audience which is in danger of dying off; the median age of O’Reilly’s viewers is seventy-two. However, when it comes to religion, much of what they say reflects tacit anti-rationalist assumptions shared by far too many people from all walks of life – assumptions that must be challenged and refuted.

A case in point: on April 2, O’Reilly opened his show with a segment entitled “The War on Christianity Getting Even Worse.” In it, he provides a distressing video overview of recent terrorist attacks against and executions of Christians in Africa and Pakistan, and declares that “Christians are being slaughtered all over the place.” He segues to the United States, where “verbal attacks against Christians are the headline,” and “some far-left people . . . are smearing Americans who oppose things like abortion and gay marriage,” from which he concludes that “it is open season on Christians.”

The evidence? “Well-known religion hater” Bill Maher (shown calling religions “stupid and dangerous”) has a “free pass to bash people of faith,” with his “vicious behavior toward Christianity largely ignored in the press.”

O’Reilly presents results from an Associated Press – Gallup poll according to which 57 percent of Americans favor letting “wedding-related businesses with religious objections” opt out of serving gay marriages, as well as a Public Religion Research Institute survey showing that 54 percent of Americans believe their religious liberty is under threat. “Most Americans get” what’s going on, he says. Nevertheless, “secular progressives have succeeded in putting people of faith on the defensive,” with a prime example of this being the pizzeria in Walkerton, Indiana, which, in a report aired by a local television channel, declared it would refuse to bake pizzas for a gay wedding.

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[cbayer]

1. Good article. The terrorism by Maher statement is rather tongue in cheek.

The author takes O'Reilly to task for the false equivalency of what is actually happening to christians in some parts of the world and what Maher is doing. He sees the "terror" perpetrated by Maher as something of a joke by comparison.

[rurallib]

2. O'Reilly blames Maher for Muslims killing Christians?

Wonder how many centuries back the blame goes, cause they been killing each other for a long time.

How can anyone so ignorant have even one person believe anything he says?

[cbayer]

3. I was glad to read in this article that the average age of his viewer is 72.

[rurallib]

6. the average IQ - much lower

[cbayer]

7. Touche! Well played, ruralib.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Fox has victimhood syndrome on steroids lately.

[freshwest]

5. No victory lap until O'Reilly and Coulter are off the air. And Rush. n/t

[nil desperandum]

8. Free Speech

terrifies a liar like O'Reilly. Free speech means those who know the depth of O'Reilly's lies are free to speak their mind.

He is a soulless leech upon society and he knows it, if his god is so fragile that something said by the likes of Maher will endanger his god and religion it's about as stable a platform as islam which apparently will come crashing down at the drawing of a cartoon.

O'Reilly tells lies every day and berates those who dare question his veracity, the problem is that his echo chamber insulates him from the reality that most people view him as the liar he is. No one with any actually capacity for rational thought buys into his dishonest explanations of covering a war and being in a war zone, and those who have actually been in those places know O'Reilly and Williams are beneath contempt for trying to steal what isn't theirs through lies.

Coulter is worse because she doesn't even believe what she says, she just makes a good living saying words to incite simpletons into a stupefied rage on their sofas. She's the worst kind of hack, intelligent but without real conviction mouthing a position to cash the check and move on. If she saw a dollar in spouting liberal hyperbole she'd be on Maddow tomorrow making bank with blather.