I have no idea what they are trying to say.
You can see the video that was originally quoted here: https://xcancel.com/billmaher/status/1844938477512675654#m
Bill Maher seems aggressively unfunny to me, but the gist of the video is that it’s a open letter to Chappell Roan (who is pro-Palestine), saying that Israelis aren’t colonisers, because the Bible mentions that they built a temple in that area before others in Middle-East settled there. It seems like a questionable claim to me, and there are plenty of replies to the video disagreeing with him.
I mean, the Bible also mentions exactly how they drove out and murdered the Canaanites that were living there before them. Sounds like a coloniser to me - not that they were special for doing that, in their day.
The bible also says that you’re supposed to murder noncombatants during war. I think we should discount the old testament as a guide of any kind
The New Atheist movement led by figures such as Richard Dawkins have recently changed their mind from “all religions bad” to “Islam bad”.
This affirm previous suspicions that the most hardcore atheists were simply Islamophobes. Coincidentally they are also the staunchest deniers of the genocide in Gaza.
Hardcore atheist here. All religions are equally fictional, and I’m not an Islamophobe.
You can be an atheist without being in the New Atheism movement.
Why did you write this? No one mentioned you.
This seems a lot like rage bait. I’m going to lock this because I don’t have the time to watch it. Have a great evening.
Zionists use religious texts to justify genocide so it would make sense to use religious texts against them. Not sure how their relationship with the bible is these days, though.
I’m far from a Maher fan, but it seems this chode complaining is cherry-picking and/or didn’t really listen to what Maher said.
I thought Bill Maher was Jewish?
He has jewish heritage but was raised catholic and is an atheist
