{"id":7665,"date":"2014-10-05T16:32:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T16:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/05\/bill-maher-and-sam-harris-hammer-ben-affleck\/"},"modified":"2014-10-05T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T16:32:46","slug":"bill-maher-and-sam-harris-hammer-ben-affleck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/05\/bill-maher-and-sam-harris-hammer-ben-affleck\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher and Sam Harris Hammer Ben Affleck"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lively 'conversation'<\/a> about Islam.  Affleck outs himself as a perfect idiot while getting slaughtered by the Maher-Harris tag team.  Around 2:05 he starts to quote the Declaration of Independence (second paragraph) and the line about all men being endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and then 'corrects' himself substituting 'forefathers' for 'Creator.'  Unbelievable.  Does this idiot really believe that our rights come from the contingent decisions of certain fallible human beings?<\/span><\/p>\n

Addendum 10\/7<\/strong>:  Affleck's view is not only stupid, but dangerous.  But note that rejecting it leaves two options: rights come from the Creator; rights are simply part of the nature of things.  What exactly  the second option means, and whether it survives scrutiny, are nice questions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Affleck is a representative instance of the HollyWeird liberal who has swallowed the leftist 'narrative' hook, line, and sinker.  Pretty boy infidels like him would be among the first to have their throats cuts should the Islamists get their way.  A useful idiot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Addendum 10\/8:<\/strong>  Nicholas Kristof, another of the participants in the above-referenced 'conversation,' is also deserving of severe criticism for his mindless NYT-leftism.  Dennis Prager does the job here<\/a>.  The column concludes:<\/span><\/p>\n

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But it was later in the dialogue that Kristof expressed the most dishonest of the left's arguments on this issue:<\/span><\/p>\n

"The great divide is not between Islam and the rest. It's rather between the fundamentalists and the moderates in each faith."<\/span><\/p>\n

"In each faith," Kristof?<\/span><\/p>\n

Where, sir, are the Christian and Jewish jihadists? The only Jewish state in the world is one of the freest countries on earth, with protections for minority religions and women and homosexuals unknown anywhere in the Muslim world. And virtually every free country in the world is in the Christian world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Presumably, these are just "ugly" facts.<\/span><\/p>\n

This debate was valuable. Even more valuable would be if Maher and Harris came to realize that the death of Judeo-Christian values and their being supplanted by leftism is producing hundreds of millions of people who think like Ben Affleck and Nicholas Kristof.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A lively 'conversation' about Islam.  Affleck outs himself as a perfect idiot while getting slaughtered by the Maher-Harris tag team.  Around 2:05 he starts to quote the Declaration of Independence (second paragraph) and the line about all men being endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and then 'corrects' himself substituting 'forefathers' for 'Creator.'  … Continue reading “Bill Maher and Sam Harris Hammer Ben Affleck”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}