Maher: Republicans Don’t Like the Real Jesus, So They Made Up a Fake One

Bill Maher ended his show tonight by going after Christian Republicans for making up their own version of Jesus because they don’t really like the teachings of the real one.

Maher invoked both Pope Francis and that pharmaceutical industry CEO Martin Shkreli to argue “these so-called Christians” believe in “supply-side Jesus” instead of the Jesus who preached against materialism and for taking care of the poor.

He snarked that their version of Jesus is “a small businessman from Galilei whose main gripe is big government and who wants to make Nazareth great again.”

Watch above, via HBO.

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