"Bill Maher on Religion"

The “rational minority” according to Bill Maher can potentially make a difference in the American political system, a system which thrives off of a religious background deeply rooted in Judeo-Christian beliefs. The question the Bill Maher raises is whether or not the American public will ever get over its religious ties to politics, and learn to leave the government and their personal religious beliefs separate. My only critique of this philosophy is that many of the mainstream issues circulating through the media and that are highly covered around any election time are issues that have answers strongly mixed with the religious views of the majority of Americans. It’ll be hard to stray away from the temptation of mixing faith and politics, especially when the public has made it clear that some sort of religious affiliation is a necessity for any would-be President (atheist being the least likely to get a vote from the American public).

What needs to be understood among the opposing religions when deciding whether or not a Presidential candidate’s religion will make a difference, is that every religion has its abstract on imaginative stories with somewhat unrealistic and scientifically unproven miracles, and we can not single out one religion’s stories and say that they are any different than our own. Although the world Bill Maher imagines seems like an ideal one, one where people don’t hold prejudices based on intangible beliefs and don’t base their political platforms from revelations from God, it seems highly unlikely and far-fetched to think that America will soon deviate from its deeply rooted religious history.