Ben Affleck Slams Bill Maher for "Racist," "Ugly" Views in Heated Islam Debate

[Shoulders of Giants]

25. A religion is not a race.

Bill Maher has probably spent far more of his career attacking Christianity ( a religion far more likely to be practiced by white people in America), so Ben Affleck's racism charges don't carry much weight. If you read the Koran, you can see it very clearly supports barbaric actions against many groups including women, homosexuals, and non believers. To be fair, the Bible does also. However, the majority of Christians have never read the Bible, and have little clue of the rape, genocide, slavery, child murder supporting stuff that its in it. Thank God for that, or we would be in even bigger trouble here in the Bible belt.

The difference between Christianity and Islam isn't the holy book. The books are more similiar than they are different in my opinion. Its the fact that the Islamic world has more followers who actually follow what the holy book says and aren't "cafeteria Muslims" like there are so many "cafeteria Christians." Ultimately, society will progress at a greater rate when people quit taking their morals from these "holy" books. I don't see how pointing this out is racist, or even has anything to do with the subject of racism. You can subscribe to whatever religion you want to regardless of your race. Bill Maher simply pointed out that there is a huge problem of intolerance in the Islamic world which goes against a liberal secular worldview. Ben Affleck is completely wrong in his analysis.