Maher declares at the outset that he’s just a reasonable man who seeks to raise the status of “doubt.” While religion sells a silly\/dangerous “invisible product,” he says, “my product is doubt.”
\nBut by the end he declares, with fervor that would make Jimmy Swaggert proud, “Religion must die if mankind is to live.” There is no doubt, no shades of gray. There are no examples of religion ever doing anything good, ever. He casts his opponents as not merely mistaken but grotesque and dangerous to your very existence.
\nMaher’s product is not doubt. It’s certainty — a black-and-white world view that demonizes religion in the same way that some religious fundamentalists demonize those who differ from them.
\nMaher is a secular fundamentalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Maher declares at the outset that he’s just a reasonable man who seeks to raise the status of “doubt.” While religion sells a silly\/dangerous “invisible product,” he says, “my product is doubt.” But by the end he declares, with fervor that would make Jimmy Swaggert proud, “Religion must die if mankind is to live.” There…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n