Real Time presenter Bill Maher ended his program on Friday night, suggesting that those who criticize the QAnon conspiracy theory and also defend or respect religious values do not have a leg to lean on.
Maher, an avowed atheist, began his monologue by explaining what former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial “really does.”
He said the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was a “faith-based initiative” and that Trumpism was a “Christian-nationalist movement that believes Trump was literally sent from heaven to save them”.
“There is a lot of talk in liberal chants about how Republicans should tell their base that they still believe the election was rigged, that they need to grow and move on and stop asking the rest of us to respect their mass illusion,” Maher told his audience. “And, of course, it’s a mass illusion, but the inconvenient truth here is that if you give religious faith the kind of exhaled respect that we do here in America, you’ve already lost the argument that mass illusion is bad. ”
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“It’s fun to laugh at QAnon with baby-eating lizards and pedophile pizzerias, but have you read the Book of Revelations?” Maher asked. “This is the Bible. This is your holy book, Christians. And they have seven-headed dragons and locusts with the face of a man and dandelions and other things that you see after the guy in the park sells you rotten mushrooms. “
Bill Maher, host of “Real Time” on HBO.
The HBO star then juxtaposed the so-called “Jewish Space Laser” conspiracy that was driven by the rep. American Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., To the story of Megiddo, Israel, where he said this, according to the Book of Revelations, the “end of the world” will happen.
“All the armies of the world will come together and Jesus will descend on a flying horse, throwing swords with his mouth,” said Maher, “and will have a thousand-year cosmic boss battle with Satan, the Beast and the Antichrist.”
“It’s like 10 ‘Avenger’ movies plus 10 ‘Hobbit’ movies, another night with Johnny Depp,” said Maher.
“Please, magical religious thinking is a virus and QAnon is just its current mutation. That’s why mega churches play QAnon videos. It’s the same basic storyline. ‘Q’ is the prophet and Trump is the messiah. There is an event apocalyptic approaching, ‘Storm.’ There is a titanic struggle between good and evil, and if you want good to win, just keep the checks in. “
“We need to stop pretending that we are not going to understand why the Trump crowd believes him. It is because they are religious! They have already created space in their heads for s — it makes no sense. When you are a QAnon fanatic, you he is also a fundamentalist Christian. They just walk together like macaroni and cheese … It is no coincidence that every senator who opposed certifying the Arizona electoral vote is an evangelical Christian. ”
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Maher then highlighted Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who defended his objection to the electoral vote citing a poll that showed that “39 percent” of Americans believe the election was “rigged” and that “You may not agree with that assessment . But it is still a reality for almost half of the country. “
“In other words, we have no evidence that the election was stolen and you can have verifiable evidence that it was not, but it doesn’t matter. It only matters if we believe that,” said Maher. “And it is when you are in religion, that you have to respect something just because people believe it”.