Friday evening on Actual Time, Bill Maher dug up the quote that threatened to derail then-candidate Barack Obama‘s presidential campaign in 2008: “People get bitter and so they cling to their guns and their faith.” Maher joked, “Boy, he was approach off on that.” This resulted in a dialogue about a latest poll that presentations nearly one-third of American citizens in give a boost to of organising Christianity as an professional national faith.

Visitor Bob Costas jumped into the fray first, asking, “Isn’t in interesting the people that are usually so staunchly in favor of states’ rights desire a nationwide religion?” He joked that if we’re going to go together with official religions, we might as smartly preserve it at the state degree, with Utah going Mormon, Arizona worshiping the “sun god” and California opting for “paganism.”

“It’s so rude,” Maher stated. “You can worship no matter bullshit you will have, however let’s make it respectable? The boldness of faith truly pisses me off.” He endured his criticism of the left through suggesting that Democrats are “not in point of fact helping” on this issue. “I wish to see one celebration be the pro-secular party,” Maher introduced.

Despite Obama’s prior acknowledgment that some people “cling” to their faith, Maher stated he was now not “reassured” through the president’s professed spiritual religion. “They all the time say, in a predicament I’d pray,” he said. “Oh just right, I’m satisfied you would attempt to discuss to your imaginary good friend.”

When former GOP Rep. David Stockman prompt that Washington, Adams and Jefferson “didn’t actually have a religion,” Maher stated, “that’s gone through a rewrite, hasn’t it, by way of conservatives? They actually suppose Jesus delivered the Structure.”

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