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Bill Maher, Gullibility, and the Glass House: Part 2
In the recent movie Religulous, comedian Bill Maher portrays the religious in general and Christians in particular of being gullible. At one point in the movie, he speaks with Steve Berg, a Jew for Jesus, and implies that Berg holds an inconsistency because he does not believe in a Santa Claus who can deliver so many toys in a brief period of time while holding that God can hear and answer millions of prayers being uttered simultaneously. But is this a good analogy?
Recently we have received emails from various individuals commenting on articles in our 4truth.net website challenging our positions and asserting that theirs is the one true church. They argue that their church organization is the exclusive ecclesiological institution Jesus Himself founded and all others are fraudulent or inferior. Oddly, all of these “true” groups imply that we Baptists are a false church, yet they criticize us as being too harsh or critical of them in our material.
Recently we received an email from a man concerned about someone he knows who is a Christian but claims to have the ability to sense the presence of and communicate with dead spirits (a la The Sixth Sense, only on a less dramatic scale). His friend is supposedly studying the phenomenon scientifically and is convinced it is valid. The inquirer wanted to know how I thought Christians should respond to these claims.
Recently we were contacted by a man named Nelson. "I have a Bible question I want you to answer," he said. "Why do Christians believe in the Trinity when the Bible clearly teaches that the Father is the only true God?” Nelson then claimed that according to John 17:3 and 1 Corinthians 8:6, the Father, not Jesus, is the only true God. When we asked him what church he attended, Nelson proudly answered, “I am one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
Comedian Bill Maher is on a crusade against organized religion. Maher believes that a supreme being of some sort exists but that it is nothing like what is being presented by the world religions. During a recent interview, Mike Huckabee asked Maher if he thought any good had resulted from religion.
