1. Atheism is a religion and you're as bad as the fundamentalists

Comment #81703 by Rhys on October 25, 2007 at 3:59 am

I don't want to waste my time refuting this claim, instead I will just list a few details about myself.

Name: NOT Nathan Woodlingtonson
Age: NOT Between 192 and 238
Hobbies: NOT feeding ducks and NOT swimming
Hair Colour: Bald
Favorite Band: NOT Grinspoon
Religion: ATHEIST!

You can tell as much as you can about my other personality traits as you can with my religion. Therefore Atheism is not a religion.

2. New Rules: A Religious Test

Comment #73017 by Rhys on September 23, 2007 at 8:13 pm

Bill is the champion of the condescending religious talk. I've never heard the phrase "...after you die, party with your ghost forever." but I like it!

3. New Rules: A Religious Test

Comment #73016 by Rhys on September 23, 2007 at 8:07 pm

Salman Rushdie is on the far right, Janine Garofalo next to him and the last guy is Rob Thomas from Matchbox fucking Twenty.

4. God Bless Me, It's a Best-Seller!

Comment #64126 by Rhys on August 17, 2007 at 10:44 pm

I always wondered about those polls. I think because people equate religiosity with patriotism in America they feel obliged to pretend they are more religious than they are.

5. Bill Maher - APATHEIST

Comment #35649 by Rhys on April 28, 2007 at 5:35 am

Wow. I'm surprised there is so much hostility towards Bill Maher. Everyone here seems to be under the opinion that he is some Jay Leno or David Letterman who runs an entertainment talk show. Real Time is by far the smartest comedy talk show on TV and Bill Maher is easily one of the smartest hosts of any show on TV.

Also anyone trying to make the case that Bill is some Johnny-come-lately atheist who is trying to ride the recent success of Dawkins and Harris. For those of you who think this I would recomend watching his 2000 standup show 'Be More Cynical' or his 2003 show 'Victory Begins at Home' where he spends a good 20 minutes or so ripping Islam to shreds. And remember this was in the few years after 9/11 when everyone had to pretend that Islam was a religion of peace that had a few bad apples.

My guess is most of the people critical of Bill here haven't seen anything outside of the 2 clips above. Possibly not even them. I have also noticed that on a few recent episodes of Real Time, bill has referenced and stuck up for Dawkins, Harris and Dennet in the face of a number of guests. I always wondered why he never had any of them on I wouldn't be surprised if Dawkins himself appeared in the documentary. Whatever happens I am looking forward to it.

The one thing I do have against Maher's show is his audience who sound like they have been bussed in from The Jerry Springer Show and spend way to much time applauding stupid shit. Which is why it was so funny when Christopher Hitchens gave them the finger and told them to fuck off.