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Nuke the Gay Whales for Jesus

Maher has his comedic moments. Yet for the most part his attack on spirituality of any stripe is a bit tiresome. He and so many Hollywooders boast of being "non-practicing, nonobservant Jews". I cant imagine any other belief system which would claim as members those who dont observe or practice it regularly. Right up there with non-observant vegetarians or men who claim not to be gay (though the men they sodomize are!) And I've yet to see Streisand, Maher, Rob Reiner or Woody Allen make any statements in support of Israel as the Jewish people face terror onslaughts daily from Iran and its regional surrogates.

I would just love it if someday Mr. Maher talks about his Jewish mother.

There's something quite infantile about Maher's approach to satire. Okay, already. He's enlightened and all the religious are emersed in darkness. They, the "heroic" assailants of "organized religion," have had long run. Let them start attacking the new religious institutions: homosexual marriage and the toxic Hollywood pornography industry. That would be a truly courageous act. And, why do Jewish publication celebrate so many non-Jewish or hardly-Jewish "artists?"

You are not born a vegetarian, you are born a Jew. I don't see what closeted gays have to do with the issue at all. Gay marriage is not a religious institution: a synagogue is. A seminary is. And rabbis who certify kosher food for atrocious slaugherhouses are part of one too. If it is anything, gay marriage is a civil institution. And I'm not splitting hairs here. The idea that secular institutions and notions are religions or can be dismissed as religions by their critics--who are usually religious--doesn't make any sense at all. It sounds as if you are saying that religion is nothing but superstition or unfounded belief. You surely cannot believe that.

There seem to be only things that interest you guys: sex and a rather monochromatic view of Israel. Why get so exercised by homosexuality when there are other values--much more central to Judaism, like justice and righteousness--that should occupy us enough.

I don't get it.

Maher is a pathetic excuse for a human being. It's ironic that someone who calls himself a comedian is never funny. I don't know why anyone gives this fool the time of day. He is just another of the endless supply of tiresome liberals spouting their hatred of anything conservative. He makes liberals look even more foolish then they are. I'm surprised he doesn't have a column in the Forward. They are perfect for each other.

[It's ironic that someone who calls himself a comedian is never funny.]

I find it ironic that an intolerant right-wing jackass like yourself calls himself a Jew.