withIn the Extra time segment of his convey Friday evening, Invoice Maher learn a viewer-submitted query about how close the United States is to electing an atheist president. Richard Dawkins suspected many serving politicians are hiding their nonbelief from the faithful public, while Michael Moore predicted they might have an atheist president of their lifetimes.

Dawkins stated, “If you consider it, 534 participants of the U.S. Congress can’t all be religious. That’s simply statistical nonsense. Many of them are slightly well-educated.”

The target audience burst out laughing at that remaining line, but Dawkins maintained it’s “evident nonsense” there’s not a single atheist in the entire Congress, and suspected a couple of presidential candidates have additionally lied.

Moore mentioned young individuals “don’t give a shit” about perception in God so it’ll occur quickly sufficient, but Maher was once more pessimistic about it. Dawkins, in the meantime, stated it’s “miserable” how even in England, there’s a high proportion of young Muslims who legitimately consider death is an appropriate punishment for apostasy.

Maher went off on how “religion partitions off part of your mind” and stated he’s always been amazed at how “otherwise shrewd individuals [could] wall off part of their thoughts and consider in a speaking snake!”

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