CBC: I think there’s been a couple of studies done about Canadians and this evangelical movement never got hold in Canada. We were just never, never, religion plays a very very small part –

Maher: To me, to me it’s a real dividing line between people of intelligence and – not that there haven’t been some intelligent people who are religious. I mean, T.S. Elliott was a great poet and he became a very devout Catholic… But I always call religion a neurological disorder. I really do believe that. I mean it’s not criticizing. I’m just saying if you took religion out of it and somebody went to a psychiatrist and said you know I believe in you know this crazy, illogical thing, the shrink would say, well you have a neurological disorder. And you need to really get therapy or take a pill.

This is from a recent interview with Bill Maher. Although it focuses more on the upcoming election than religion (this question appeared at the end of the article), this made me wonder. If religion is a “neurological disorder” to someone like Maher, then how would he specifically define Christianity?

Either I’m reading into this too deeply or this is a confirmation on why I don’t take political pundits like Maher very seriously. Political bloggers, on the other hand…