Noted Atheist Bill Maher Believes in Ghosts
In case you weren’t aware, Bill Maher is an atheist.
The Real Time host even found a way to monetize his spiritual skepticism with 2008’s Religulous, a documentary that spent over 90 minutes criticizing the scare tactics and preachiness of organized religion, but then ended with Maher unironically lecturing audiences about an impending apocalypse, intercut with footage of terrorist attacks and nuclear explosions, all set to ominous choral music. It made Mel Gibson’s unhinged Jesus movie seem subtle by comparison.
Clearly self-awareness has never been Maher’s strong suit, but even after devoting so much of his career to arguing against people’s “stupid” beliefs, apparently he himself seems to believe in g-g-g-ghosts!
During a recent episode of Club Random, the only YouTube show filmed in a suburban divorcé’s radioactive man cave, Maher temporarily paused fiddling with joints and liquor bottles to ask his guest, legendary magician and “professional skeptic” Penn Jillette,...
The Real Time host even found a way to monetize his spiritual skepticism with 2008’s Religulous, a documentary that spent over 90 minutes criticizing the scare tactics and preachiness of organized religion, but then ended with Maher unironically lecturing audiences about an impending apocalypse, intercut with footage of terrorist attacks and nuclear explosions, all set to ominous choral music. It made Mel Gibson’s unhinged Jesus movie seem subtle by comparison.
Clearly self-awareness has never been Maher’s strong suit, but even after devoting so much of his career to arguing against people’s “stupid” beliefs, apparently he himself seems to believe in g-g-g-ghosts!
During a recent episode of Club Random, the only YouTube show filmed in a suburban divorcé’s radioactive man cave, Maher temporarily paused fiddling with joints and liquor bottles to ask his guest, legendary magician and “professional skeptic” Penn Jillette,...
- 7/24/2024
- Cracked
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