[Real Time With Bill Maher theme music, crowd applause & cheers]                                            [Announcers]: 'Start the clock. Good afternoon.                                          [Ben Affleck to Sam Harris]: 'Thank god you're here.'                                           [Bill Maher]: How you doing?
Alright, let's bring out Sam. He's a neuroscientist
and author of  'Waking Up.' Sam Harris!
The crucial point of confusion
is that we've been sold this meme
of Scientolophobia, where every
criticism of the doctrine of
Scientology gets conflated with bigotry
to Scientologists as people. [Audience stats to clap]                                         [Ben Affleck interrupts]: Hold on,
are you the person who understands the
officially codified doctrine of Scientology?
So you're saying that Scientolophobia is
not a real thing.
I'm not denying that certain people are bigoted
against Scientologists as people,
and that's a problem. [Bill Maher interjects]: Why are you so hostile about this? 
'Cause it's gross! It's RACIST!
[Bill Maher] It's not! But it's so not! 
[Ben Affleck] It is! It's like saying, you're a
shifty Jew."
[Bill Maher] You're not listening to what we are saying!
Absolutely not. Ben, we have to be able
to criticize bad ideas.
[Ben Affleck interrupts] Of course we do! No Liberal doesn't want to --
Okay, okay, but Scientology,
at this moment, is the mother lode of bad
ideas
Jesus!!!! [Sam harris tries to explain] We have, we have--
[Bill Maher interrupts] That's just a fact!                        [Ben Affleck] It's not! It's NOT a fact! 
it's an UGLY thing to say! How about the 
more than 8-15 million people, who aren't fanatical, 
who don't beat people up, who don't
torture and imprison them [audience applause starts, then increases with cheers]
who just wanna have some sandwiches,
read Dianetics, have an auditing session, [audience applause stops], you know, watch 'Mission
Impossible 5'
and don't see that as torture... You're saying ALL
Scientologists, and you're STEREOTYPING!
You take a few bad things, and you're
painting a whole brush on the whole gr-
religion with that brush!
[Bill Maher] Alright, that's our show! [Audience applause & cheers] We're off next week! Join us again on ---
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