After sparking a fight with Donald Trump last week, Bill Maher used his New Rules this week to adopt someone even more powerful: Jesus.
Riffing off of Ryan Reynolds’ recent apology for getting married on a former slave plantation, the Real time pointed out that the hero of the New Testament was also not always on the right side of the slavery debate.
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In multiple passages of the Bible – Colossians 3:22, Ephesians 6: 5 and Peter 2:18, according to Maher, Christ encourages slaves to “submit to your masters.”
No one is perfect, Maher recalled, especially in America where, “We are all six degrees of genocidal assh * les. If we begin to turn history into a game of guilt through union, it will never end.”
He then gave some examples.
“The stock market is 2 miles from New York’s first slave market.”
“The country itself is named after a slave trade called Amerigo.”
“Washington and Jefferson are also standing up for cancellation because they had slaves.”
If a product of your time is really no excuse, he suggested, then the re-examination should go all the way to the top.
“If we are going to be consistent,” he said Real time host, I think we will cancel God. ”
But none of this is realistic, Maher said. “We can not just wrap up our government and imagine that this country never happened.”
And we are not better than these people just because we have the advantage of hindsight, he said. “You are no better than Jesus, than Ulysses S Grant, because you lived later.”
Maher’s solution? Stop back.
“Here’s a crazy idea: Let’s live in the present and make the future better,” he suggested.
Check out some of Maher’s New Rules below.
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