{"id":120264,"date":"2021-02-07T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120264"},"modified":"2021-02-07T14:42:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T19:42:55","slug":"bill-maher-blames-capitol-riot-on-christianity-conflates-qanon-conspiracies-with-religious-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-blames-capitol-riot-on-christianity-conflates-qanon-conspiracies-with-religious-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Blames Capitol Riot On Christianity, Conflates QAnon Conspiracies With \u2018Religious Thinking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-maher-blames-capitol-riot-on-christianity-conflates-qanon-conspiracies-with-religious-thinking%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120264&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/E141AF9B-0593-4D62-9FCE-5369D477507A-scaled-e1612723718686.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>HBO host Bill Maher on Friday blamed the Capitol riot on Christianity and conflated those who believe the QAnon conspiracy theory with those who have faith in religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as we\u2019re going to go to the trouble of another impeachment trial, we might as well be honest about what it\u2019s really about,\u201d Maher began. \u201cThe events of Jan. 6 were a faith-based initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Trumpism is a Christian nationalist movement that believes Trump was literally sent from heaven to save them,\u201d Maher added, playing a clip of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) claiming God sent Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of talk now in liberal corners about how Republicans should tell their base who still believe the election was rigged that they need to grow up and move on, and stop asking the rest of us to respect their mass delusion,\u201d Maher continued. \u201cAnd of course it is a mass delusion, but the inconvenient truth here is that if you accord religious faith the kind of exalted respect we do here in America, you\u2019ve already lost the argument that mass delusion is bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fun to laugh at QAnon, with the baby-eating lizard people and the pedophile pizza parlors, but have you ever read the Book of [Revelation]?\u201d Maher said to a smattering of applause. \u201cThat\u2019s the Bible. That\u2019s your holy book, Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher went on to scoff at the symbolic content of Revelation, which he seemingly assumed was meant to be taken literally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMagical religious thinking is a virus, and QAnon is just its current mutation,\u201d Maher argued. \u201cThat\u2019s why megachurches play QAnon videos. It\u2019s the same basic plot: Q is a prophet, Trump is the messiah, there\u2019s an apocalyptic event looming, \u2018the storm,\u2019 there\u2019s a titanic struggle of good versus evil, and if you want to win, just keep those checks coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher claimed that the reason \u201cthe Trump mob believes in him\u201d is because they are religious. \u201cThey\u2019ve already made space in their heads for sh*t that doesn\u2019t make sense. When you\u2019re a QAnon fanatic, you\u2019re also a fundamentalist Christian. They just go together, like macaroni and cheese or chardonnay and Valium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher likened the Capitol riot to \u201ca revival meeting,\u201d mocking the people who were praying at the event and displaying religious signs. He pointed out that the senators who voted to object to the election results in Arizona were evangelical Christians, comparing their claims of election fraud without proof to the claims of religion.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing to Thomas Paine\u2019s \u201cThe Age of Reason,\u201d Maher concluded that religious people are going against the intention of the Founding Fathers to base the nation on reason instead of faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo respectfully, I direct you to your own T-shirt: F*ck your feelings,\u201d Maher added.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Rule: America&#039;s Mass Delusion | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zhTbtqOJA08?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bill-maher-likens-trumps-rumored-patriot-party-to-hitlers-brownshirts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Maher Likens Trump\u2019s Rumored \u2018Patriot Party\u2019 To Hitler\u2019s Brownshirts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO host Bill Maher on Friday blamed the Capitol riot on Christianity and conflated those who believe the QAnon conspiracy theory with those who have faith in religion. \u201cAs long &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892830,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3895,5692,4172,5695,5689,3618],"class_list":["post-120264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bill","tag-blames","tag-capitol","tag-christianity","tag-maher","tag-riot"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}