Bill Maher's final comment from Religulous

I just saw the Youtube clip of Bill Maher's final comment from Religulous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIZWDyMLGIQ
I had been interested in seeing the whole thing, even though I knew I was going to disagree. Now, it seems that he is just on this same old bandwagon to destroy religion -- nothing new. It is a combination of Feuerbach (God is the invention of people who "need" him), Marx (Religion is the opiate of the masses and is all about power and control of others), war arguments (Religion must be bad because of all the violence it has produced) and personal arrogance ("No one knows for sure what happens after death because I don't know..."). Admittedly, Bill Maher has very cool and disturbing images to add to these arguments, but I didn't see anything else new. His closing call is to abandon religion...it seems, even, suppress religion. I wondered if he wants to suppress it by force (He calls on atheists to "rise up"). What kind of religion is Bill Maher trying to create?
I don't care for John Hick's conclusion to comparative religions (they all must be right) nor Bill Maher's conclusion (they all must be wrong). Can we get a little balance, please?

Cook weekly appendix: Car Praise

Thank you all for praying...

We just got a call from the dealership and our car is ready...

Matt and Andy just left to go get it.

God is good all the time... And ... all the time God is good.

What a nice Christmas present.

Cindy, for us both

Cook Weekly-le 22 dec 2008

I'm sending this again, since I see that the attachment didn't go through. Cindy :-)

Merry Christmas

Dear friends and family:

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Cindy and Holly had a great time today visiting an orphanage. I've attached a photo of Holly and a new friend.

Please pray that the workers who need to finish the paper work on our car will go back to work and stop striking. No, we still don't have our car. Please pray that it will happen soon.

Thanks again for partnering with us.
Cindy,

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Cook Weekly-le 22 dec 2008

Merry Christmas

Dear friends and family:

Our weekly is a pdf file. Let us know if you can't open it and we'll send it to you in a different format.

Cindy and Holly had a great time today visiting an orphanage. I've attached a photo of Holly and a new friend.

Please pray that the workers who need to finish the paper work on our car will go back to work and stop striking. No, we still don't have our car. Please pray that it will happen soon.

Thanks again for partnering with us.
Cindy,

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Cook Weekly - le 15 decembre 2008

So many of you were impressed with Walker's Wanderings last week. So, I'm trying a new thing with a summary of what our work team did. Hope you enjoy it. Cindy Cook

COOK Weekly - 8 decembre 2008

We're going to make this brief since we're heavily involved in two workteams right now. We're having a great time with both, but feeling a bit overwhelmed by the end of each day. Pray for our strength and health.

Also, for those of you who can download this letter, it's a great testimony of how our kids at Dakar Academy are having an impact on their part of the world. Holly is in the middle of the first (top) picture holding the "good news" soccer ball. I'm so proud of her.

Have a great week and thanks for your prayers. Our children are home in 10 days!!! We're so anxious to have them back where we can see them, literally, not just with a webcam!!! Love, Cindy