“The fool says in his heart ‘There is no God’” (Ps. 14:1).
It’s been nearly two weeks since Donald Trump was almost assassinated on national television, and the left’s reaction has ranged from tepid (and swiftly forgotten) pleas to “lower the temperature” to laments over the poor marksmanship of the shooter to veiled (and not so veiled) accusations that Trump staged the whole event.
Late-night talk show host and purported comedian Bill Maher took a different tack on the shooting that also killed one bystander and wounded two others. After years of rebranding himself as a thoughtful moderate who opposes the woke agenda of his own party, Maher once again revealed his true leftist colors by using last Friday’s opening monologue to rail against those Trump supporters who believe that the killer’s near miss was the result of divine providence. In doing so, he confirmed the dangers of the left’s rejection of religion and its societal benefits.
The Banality of Maher’s Atheism
Maher’s rant had all the rationality and compassion you might expect from a multimillionaire who hoped for a recession so Trump would not be reelected in 2020. The highlights of Maher’s (half-)wit include equating those who believe in a divine plan with people who see the face of Jesus in a pancake, joking that “God was having an off day” when Congressman Steve Scalise was shot by a Bernie Bro in 2017 and slandering Trump supporters as cult members using “magical thinking” to elevate their presidential candidate to
