Guest Post: Dr. Bill Brown on Bill Maher's "Hey God, you're a [expletive]!"

Recently, Dr. Bill Brown and his wife joined Axis' Board of Directors. We are excited to have them join our team as we seek to bridge generational gaps and translate culture.

Dr. Brown has served as the president of two Christian universities, is a prolific writer, and currently speaks around the country about how Christians should engage the culture with the heart and mind of Christ. To learn more about Dr. Brown, please click here or go to his blog, Radical Life.

We are excited to share with you his most recent blog post about Bill Maher's controversial and heated review of the new movie, Noah, which hits theaters March 28. We hope you enjoy his perspective!

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Last Friday, comedian Bill Maher told his audience that God was a “psychotic mass murderer.” He was discussing the soon-to-be-released Hollywood version of the biblical story of Noah, and he had harsh words for the Lord.

“Hey God, you’re a [expletive]!”

Maher was in rare form: “But the thing that’s really disturbing about Noah isn’t that it's silly; it’s that it’s immoral. It’s about a psychotic mass-murderer who gets away with it, and his name is God. . .What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he’s mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie.”

And he wasn’t finished: “Hey God, you know you’re kind of a [expletive] when you’re in a movie with Russell Crowe, and you’re the one with anger issues. […] Conservatives are always going on about how Americans are losing their values and their morality. Well, maybe it’s because you worship a guy who drowns babies.”

Bill Maher is considered smart and funny and unafraid to dialogue with those who disagree with him. On his weekly HBO talk show, “Real Time,” he allows his guests to explain and defend their views – although Christians and conservatives are usually few and outnumbered and the heated debates end in a Maher tirade and dismissive humor.

What makes his statements worth response is not merely that he has a large following among the skeptical/atheist/cynical crowd (which he does), but that, tucked away in the inner recesses of his observations, are frequently genuine substantive questions. . . .

To continue reading his post, click here.