{"id":3481,"date":"2011-03-25T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/03\/sam-harris-defends-bill-maher.html"},"modified":"2011-03-25T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:05:00","slug":"sam-harris-defends-bill-maher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/03\/sam-harris-defends-bill-maher.html","title":{"rendered":"Sam Harris defends Bill Maher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Yeah, not surprising<\/a>.\u00a0 The thing about the emergent secularists is their willingness to trumpet their own superiority and contempt to all those lower forms of life who fail to conform to their intellectual supremacy.\u00a0 So if you\u2019re wanting otherwise hyper-liberal Maher, or radical secularist Harris, to sweep in and condemn the recent congressional hearings on radical Islam, you might be waiting awhile.\u00a0 It used to be such notions of violence, warfare, government hearings would have been anathema to anyone not on the right.\u00a0 But the new atheists are a new breed, strutting like peacocks under a self proclaimed superiority that would shame a Nuremberg rally, they have no problem saying religion has got to go.\u00a0 Period.\u00a0 It needs to go.\u00a0 And the ways in which this is achieved has become the domain of polite discussion and debate within secularist circles.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

So Democrat and Muslim representative Keith Ellison may have thought he had a friend in otherwise liberal Maher, or potential support from otherwise secular leftist Harris.\u00a0 But no.\u00a0 The Secular Left is a new animal, advancing that which is appealing \u2013 we\u2019re all just animals so hie to the orgies!, while embracing some of the\u00a0traditional tactics for dealing with those who simply refuse to conform to their superior enlightenment.\u00a0 As Mark Shea points out<\/a>, there is a reason that every time a nation dedicated itself to eliminating religion, it turned into one of the most murderous and barbaric cultures in a history of barbarism and murder.\u00a0 Every. Single. Time. <\/p>\n

Bonus note: Notice Harris\u2019s assumption:<\/p>\n

\u201cit\u2019s hard to know whether Ellison was actually lying or is merely unaware of the contents of the Qur\u2019an.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As with most Secular Leftists, if you fail to conform to their dogmas and obey their pronouncements, you are either stupid, or evil, or both.\u00a0 In this case, looks like Harris is willing to cut him some slack.\u00a0 That Ellison could actually believe his dogmatic world view as passionately as Harris believes his own fiscal dogmatic world view is beyond Harris\u2019s grasp. In thousands of years of history, I have seen few cases more demonstrative of radical, fanatical, zealous fundamentalism than Harris.\u00a0 But Maher comes awfully close.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, not surprising.\u00a0 The thing about the emergent secularists is their willingness to trumpet their own superiority and contempt to all those lower forms of life who fail to conform to their intellectual supremacy.\u00a0 So if you\u2019re wanting otherwise hyper-liberal Maher, or radical secularist Harris, to sweep in and condemn the recent congressional hearings on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nSam Harris defends Bill Maher<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yeah, not surprising.  The thing about the emergent secularists is their willingness to trumpet their own superiority and contempt to all those lower\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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