From light-weights such as Cenk Uygur, to heavy-weights like Bill Maher, it is increasingly offensive to religious progressives to hear religious inanity and dispersion from one's home base, the left. To take Cenk as an example, on today's show – The Young Turks – he had Newsweek's Lisa Miller on to discuss homosexuality, marriage, and the Bible. In that interview he stated that it's an abomination to mix materials (actually it's wool and linen) and that 100% of people don't follow this law. Really Cenk? Because I know a heck of a lot of Orthodox Jews who would argue that law has been observed for thousands of years. Now, Cenk would argue that he is referring to Christians, but therein lies the problem with the progressive movements antipathy for religion: most of the time they are talking out their asses and haven't a clear understanding of that which they berate. They are just as guilty as the right-wing Christians they castigate by capriciously picking and choosing examples from the Bible to support their claims without any understanding of the depth and history behind it. Does Cenk even know that the Torah is in two parts: written and oral? Want to bet that's 'no'?
When they say things like "anyone who believes in the literal Bible is crazy/stupid" it serves the same function as those who claim that the only path to God and salvation is Jesus. Absolutes are dangerous and often times divisive. Cenk said yesterday that he doesn't care about Joe the Plumbers views on the economy and the bailout; what makes Cenk's opinion on religion any more valuable than that?
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