Posted by
Playful Walrus on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 6:23:04 PM
I often write what I don’t like about the Los Angeles Times, but one thing they often get right is running pieces from the “other side” (in comparison to the editorial board’s side).
David Wolpe, rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and the author of Why Faith Matters, had a piece today responding to Bill Maher’s latest attack on “religion”.
There are three problems with Bill Maher's new movie mocking faith: It misunderstands religion, misconceives God and gets human nature all wrong.
Click through to read the whole thing.
Here’s one of my previous entries dealing with Maher.
That some people wrongly appeal to God to excuse their foolishness or evil does not mean that God does not exist or that there is no benefit to placing our faith in God.