Why Bill Maher Hates Christians

A lot of people remember Bill Maher from his late night television show and his adventures in cable. I'll always remember him as the guy who dressed up as Steve Irwin, complete with bloody stingray barb in his chest, during Halloween in 2006. He likes to make fun of Christians and George W. Bush in particular. His latest comments compare our sitting President to Gilligan.

Why does Maher hate Bush and Christians in general so much? A friend of mine named Greg gave me the answer in the form of a quote. I thought it worthy of your consideration.

Principle—particularly moral principle—can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true.

-- Edward R. Lyman

Maher is a skeptic and a cynical one at that. There's nothing skeptics and cynics dislike more than people who adhere to a moral compass. If someone has the answers you have declared unanswerable or unsearchable, you have an obligation to deplore their answers and the certainty with which they hold those answers. One of the two parties is wrong, and Maher doesn't want it to be him. Maher blusters with anger at Christians. Anger is always rooted in another emotion, be it frustration, fear, or some other source. It's unfortunate, but I think Maher's real issue with Christianity lies within, and not without.