Every once in a while, HBO’s Bill Maher feels the need to remind people that he is still an intensely anti-religious individual. Friday’s episode of Real Time was one of those occasions, as Maher used the election of a new pope to launch into multiple anti-religious ramblings in order to portray religious people as unintelligent and violent, but it was Maher who relied on intellectually unsophisticated arguments.
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Later, during his panel discussion with GOP Rep. Mike Lawler and ABC News contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, Maher quipped, “You’re both Catholic, so, I mean, and look, obviously I don't agree with that point of view. I was raised Catholic, so we were always Catholic; we all have that in common. I got over it, some people don't.”
As he reached for a profane analogy, Maher didn’t see what the big deal about the pope is, “But, honestly, you know, speaking of Trump, he put out a picture of himself as the pope last week and nobody cared. I feel like if this had happened in 1960 and Kennedy did that it would have been a giant scandal. It’s not just because of Trump, I feel like religion is so anachronistic at this point and nobody really—it's just like a hobby. It's a feel-good story, it's like when the pandas are fucking. You know, ‘We have a new pope, oh great!’”
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