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Libations of the Cross

Posted: 03/14/08 11:22 AM ET

New Rule: Getting drunk is more important than religion.

 

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08:48 PM on 03/15/2008
Religion is a joke. How anyone can believe that stuff is beyond me.
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SweetJudith
07:29 PM on 03/15/2008
My daughter is messing around with a married man with 2 little girls and she is always reading that damn Bible
The book of lies.
My Husband and I enjoy drinking, but when she comes over,don't get it wrong we love her.
Jesus Christ she's an aerospace engineer and she is just beautiful.
She just wants a really good man in her life.
But the minute she comes over dad and I wine it up well I do, but dad loves his jack and 7, and boy does he love that jack. And I can finish off a bottle of white zin in record time.
DRINK But make sure you have a ride home or just stay home like us.....Peace!!!!!
He hides my wine but I find it and other things. LOL
Judith ,Freedom Fighter for Animals
We love you william, we never miss your shows except last night you were in VEGAS, Do they have good White Zin there? Could you find out for me please.
I am also a PETA member for many, many years.
11:19 PM on 03/15/2008
"Good white zinfandel" is an oxymoron.
Sounds like you need to take a few steps to remedy the situation -- preferably seven.
12:21 AM on 03/16/2008
how can anyone believe that stuff? the book of lies? what did the bible ever do to you? Oh you're so enlightened to not believe in a God. You mean the story of Adam and Eve isnt just a primitive explanation for creation meant to tell a story? Give me a break. Religion is about faith, and lessons to live by. If you analyze a religion like science you will never understand it, Religious teachings have a lot to offer in the way of lessons. Don't let the people who interpret the bible convince you otherwise. Take a look at the bible sometime. Oh and i guess i need some legitimacy with the enlightened scientists on Huffpo, so here it is: i havent been to church in over 5 years.
10:31 PM on 03/20/2008
"Religion is about faith, and lessons to live by."
Give me a break. Religion is about controlling behavior and amassing wealth. Religion is the creation of man, not God.
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arvada
06:05 PM on 03/15/2008
religions based on fear are the worst thing to happen to an otherwise usefull brain,
then comes alcohol
worst drugs ever
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PrdAmerican
Unitarian Universalist - True Acceptance :)
05:52 PM on 03/15/2008
I'll drink to that!
06:42 PM on 03/15/2008
I'd have a beer and Smoked Butt with Maher any St. Patrick's Day.

http://tootruthy.blogspot.com/2007/03/bill-maher-gets-his-irish-up.html
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ByersL
What fresh hell is this?
09:28 PM on 03/15/2008
Your comment gave me a good laugh on these sad days of holier-than-thou politics. Why don't we really enforce the separation of church and state? Our kids are dying in Iraq and we're worried about a dramatic pastor? get over it people! Poor Thomas Jefferson must be rolling over in his grave!
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auramac
02:36 PM on 03/15/2008
I stay away from both alcohol and religion- One Day at a Time.
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dadw5boys
Disabled Vietnam Vet
12:35 AM on 03/15/2008
"GET DOWN OFF THE CROSS SOMEONE NEEDS THE WOOD" -- Doly Pardon

Really get off the cross!
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kellygrrrl
12:15 PM on 03/15/2008
Get off the Cross

Stay on the Sauce

Great new campaign slogan.

I'm running on the Universal Cocktail platform
12:19 AM on 03/15/2008
A woman's body is my favorite object of worship, and strip clubs have always made me feel the glory of God far more than church services.

Given the choice, I will tuck my dollars into a g-string before sticking them into the collection jar every time.
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bar1ed
midnight toker!
09:19 PM on 03/14/2008
bill hit the nail right on the head again ----- Church - booze - and p-ing on the streets of my home town [nyc ] during the parade.
08:24 PM on 03/14/2008
Cute but inaccurate. In my church the drinking comes after they pass the plate, and the fantasy usually happens outside.
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Manx
07:45 PM on 03/14/2008
Right. In Russia, religion was the opium of the people. In the U.S., let's make drinking the religion of the people. The blowhard evangelicals like Robertson, the late Falwell, and Hagee are enough to drive people to drink.

Final note: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.

Bill, I will drink to your post...
06:50 PM on 03/14/2008
Screw the bread... Pass the wine!
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janvoght
06:48 PM on 03/14/2008
thanks bill, you always know how to stir up a good juicy controversy! peace-obama'08
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kellygrrrl
06:39 PM on 03/14/2008
I cannot wait for the day an Agnostic can win public office in America
08:58 PM on 03/14/2008
One is. Pete Stark (my rep here in CA-13) is atheist. He spoke about it once, said he'd never speak about it again, and he never has.

Hallelujah, I'll take more of those!
11:03 PM on 03/14/2008
Thomas Jefferson did.
12:26 AM on 03/15/2008
I cannot wait for the day an Agnostic can win public office in America

Thomas Jefferson did.
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Jefferson was a Dieist

Deists:

*Do not accept the belief of most religions that God revealed himself to humanity through the writings of the Bible, the Qur'an or other religious texts.

*Disagree with strong Atheists who assert that there is no evidence of the existence of God.

Here's a lot more:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/deism.htm
06:17 PM on 03/14/2008
St. Pat's day has nothing to do with religion for me. It is all about celebrating my Irish heritage. I enjoy that those not Irish celebrate with me. So what if I want to drink on this day, it is my right! We also have a great parade where bands play and people in marching clubs drink and march and dance. They trade kisses for paper flowers that are made in Irish colors. After the marchers, floats come and THROW cabbages, potatoes and carrots and green beads. You have to be able to catch because they really throw them cabbages, last year I caught 17! After you go home and have cabbage stew. Everyone gets to eat Irish that day for free. I know not every town has all this fun but then again, I still live in New Orleans for a reason!
10:04 PM on 03/15/2008
That does it. Monday I'm calling in sick with potato famine
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janvoght
06:14 PM on 03/14/2008
i hear ya bill! as what the catholic religion would call a transplant, i joined the catholic religion as a unifying attempt for my catholic husband and our newborn son. i soon learned, at a baptism party held at my home, where both priests involved in the baptism of myself and my 10 month old son were both known alcoholics. they were nice men, as priests go, but as i grew in knowledge and enlightenment regarding the abstinance related problems, and the alcoholism problems (probably all relating to their giving to temptation in the sexual abuse situations) i realized that in any group or organization, problems arise from the need for rules, and in the case of religion, strict rulz. somehow, the rulz apply to the sheep, but not the sheperd. organized religion has been quite a let down...and now that my boys are grown, i am content to realize a connection with my spiritual nature in actual nature! don't need a church, or anyone else for that matter to make me behave in a manner congruent with good and equitable concepts.
as for providing a diciplined environment for school and raising kids...i still like christianity...just not the control methods.
04:04 PM on 03/16/2008
No matter what you think we still live with rules whether religious or based on laws. Perhaps you are tired of the redundancy of the rules or the hypocrisy with which you witnness some living by. However, I believe the blame should not be placed on the institution of religion itself, but on those individuals who are poor spokepeople for religion, be they priests who drink or molested kids, or the nuns who knowingly entered the convent and violated their vows and the trust their students placed in them-or even the Rabbi who performs a circumcision in an unsanitary manner-yes it has happened!, the pastor who gives an emotionally charged and hateful message of anti-white rhetoric to his congregation knowing that one of his converts may be president. Yes, they are poor examples, but one shouldn't abandon religion because of them, we should kick them out and make our institutions better, have more accountability toward what they say and do. Your spiritual connection with nature so to speak was somehow instilled in your being by either someone interpreting rules or by reading someones interpretation of what the rules should be. Regardless, they are still your rules you live by. We need a moral compass. Without it we are doomed.