Bill Maher reads from Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Life"

[DutchLiberal]

Run time: 09:08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m9SRbjEHrY   Posted on YouTube: January 16, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: January 21, 2009 By DU Member: DutchLiberal Views on DU: 2049

 
Bill Maher should have given the invocation!

[ihavenobias]

1. I'm looking forward to watching this later!

Thanks for posting.

K & R

[Turbineguy]

2. Great! Thanks

I got that book a few years ago for Christmas and was wondering if I should read it, since Warren became known. Now I know I should tear out the pages and use them to train the dog where to shit.

[MrModerate]

3. Scary-funny . . .

No, I haven't ever read Rick Warren (and have no intention of starting now), but the notion that otherwise rational adults can read such tripe and think that it's providing them with some sort of insight . . . well, it makes me wonder about the truth of evolution itself, since we appear to be moving the other way.

[Maat]

4. "Error ... you've already recommended that thread!"

I'm a Unitarian-Universalist, who is essentially a transcendentalist, and am essentially a believer in the One ... and I thought it was funny.

Maher and I agree ... the only thing one can know is that we don't know.

[AwakeAtLast]

9. +1

[peacetalksforall]

5. When did he do this? Terrific.

Two things I got out of this.

1. I have continually written that Bush was all about:

Loyalty <> Reward
and
Betrayal <> Revenge

That's what I got from Warrens' words.

2. Warren's version of the Bible also has God sounding like the Mafia.
God - the big boss.
Some members brought pleasure by their obedience.
Others didn't.

Ultra simplistic.

[DutchLiberal]

8. He did this as an encore to his HBO special 'The Decider'.

[lostnotforgotten]

6. Chuckles

eom

[polichick]

7. And yet MILLIONS of people read this book - YIKES!!! Bill is the best!

[tishaLA]

10. "yeah god had some bad years....it's not all tits and champagne

in that business"

[kath]

12. Oh, man, I'm laughing again just *reading* that line!

[kath]

11. OMFG - laughed 'til I'm hoarse!

That so many so-called adults actually believe this tripe and are "inspired" by it is way freakin' scary.

[klook]

13. Very funny - thanks

Normally I consider "books" like that boring and depressing, but Maher's ridicule of it just highlights Warren's hilarious vapidity.

[autorank]

14. k*r Now I don't have to buy the book;)

Thanks so much. This is just hilarious.

[kayell]

15. Wow, 5th grade reading level....at best

Clearly written directly for people who have absolutely NO ability to evaluate "information".

[baldguy]

16. Consider the target audience.

[Merlot]

22. Exactly what I was thinking - 5th grade reading level

for people who like to be spoon fed.

[ProfessorPlum]

17. Holy Crap!! More, MORE!!! That kind of contempt

needs to be poured on that kind of moronic, simplistic, "I know the mind of God" writing. Bravo Maher! More!!!

And, Moses? REALLY? The guy who got so drunk and wasted that he passed out naked in his tent and had to be covered up by his sons? Heck of a role model.

[DutchLiberal]

20. I'm not sure that was Moses.

[ProfessorPlum]

26. sorry. Duh on me. I mean, Noah, of course, who Warren

references in the above video.

From Genesis 9:

18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth.

20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.

24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,
"Cursed be Canaan!
The lowest of slaves
will he be to his brothers."

26 He also said,
"Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem!
May Canaan be the slave of Shem.

27 May God extend the territory of Japheth ;
may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
and may Canaan be his slave."

28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29 Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and then he died.

Weird stuff, man

[DutchLiberal]

27. Can anybody explain to me what did Ham do that was so bad?

I have read Genesis in its entirety, but there's so much random nonsense like this in it, that I can't make any sense out of it. And I wonder why the fundies think it all makes perfect sense.

[ProfessorPlum]

28. He saw his father's dingle, of course.

and for that he needs to be punished.

doesn't that make sense?

[DutchLiberal]

29. Aha, and that's where the fundies' obsession with sex comes from.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. I rate Warren's book ...5 shoes.

[underpants]

19. Warren plays off as a everyman but he is really the public face of the O.C. fundies

The oddest part is that Warren is nothing more than the stoner freshman spewing generalities to try to sound not stoned. With Warren though he is doing it to take the edge off. I love that he doesn't actually quote scripture- a novel approach to an old schtick.

[progressoid]

21. "wife and eight home schooled children" Holy shit, I know someone like that.

And I'm sure they have a copy of the Purpose Driven Life in their house too.

[SeattleGirl]

23. Bwahahahaha!!!!

Laugh out loud funny!!

[DutchLiberal]

24. Warren's book or Maher's commentary?

The funny thing is: Bill could actually just have read Warren's book without any commentary and it would have been exellent stand-up material!

[Muttocracy]

25. yep, it's the analog to Tina Fey doing Palin - the material is scary enough! nt