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Title: Bill Maher's "Rules About Religion" collection.
Post by: Brian37 on June 16, 2013, 05:12:13 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUP7NY6U ... FooJTI_3_0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUP7NY6US5A&feature=em-subs_digest&list=TLcFooJTI_3_0)
Title: Re: Bill Maher's "Rules About Religion" collection.
Post by: Sal1981 on June 16, 2013, 08:22:02 PM
Pretty good collection of clips.
Title: Re: Bill Maher's "Rules About Religion" collection.
Post by: Solitary on June 16, 2013, 08:51:21 PM
Thanks for refreshing my memories. I remember these and laughed myself silly watching them.  :rollin:  Solitary
Title: Re: Bill Maher's "Rules About Religion" collection.
Post by: La Dolce Vita on June 16, 2013, 09:15:08 PM
Though slightly grating that he degined religion as belief in a supernatural being, ignores atheistic religions presenting the false idea that atheism = lack of religion/opposition to religion in the very first clip I do love these rants.
Title: Re: Bill Maher's "Rules About Religion" collection.
Post by: Colanth on June 18, 2013, 09:10:17 PM
Quote from: "La Dolce Vita"atheistic religions
Translation - lack of belief in any god method of believing in a supernatural creator.  Seems like a self-contradiction to me.  (Atheistic sects of Buddhism are philosophies, not religions.)
Title: Re: Bill Maher's "Rules About Religion" collection.
Post by: La Dolce Vita on June 19, 2013, 10:29:17 AM
Quote from: "Colanth"
Quote from: "La Dolce Vita"atheistic religions
Translation - lack of belief in any god method of believing in a supernatural creator.  Seems like a self-contradiction to me.  (Atheistic sects of Buddhism are philosophies, not religions.)

Atheism obviously don't play a part in atheistic religions, because, well, atheism can't play a part, it's a lack/exclusion of a belief. Atheistic religions are just religions that have no belief in gods. But you seem slightly confused as to what a religion is. Religion has never been defined as belief in a supernatural creator (well, I'm sure someone has defined it that way) - or having anything to do with anything of the kind. Dogma, rituals, cleric, etc. There a bunch of key elements, that do not all have to be there, for something to be classified as a religion. Are the atheistic parts of buddhism that still believes in heavens, hells and multiple other dimensions really just philosophies?
Title: Re: Bill Maher's "Rules About Religion" collection.
Post by: Satt on June 19, 2013, 07:49:13 PM
The Glenn Beck clip killed me!  :rollin: