Tucker Carlson and BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock claimed during an event in Nashville, Tennessee, last week that comedian Bill Maher lacks wisdom and fails to discern that the classical liberal ideals he champions emerged from the Christian worldview he rejects.
“He’s one of the most unwise people I’ve ever met,” Carlson said of Maher during a live conversation with Whitlock at his “Roll Call 3.0” event last Friday. “I don’t mean that as an attack. I mean, I feel sorry for him. He’s almost 70 years old and has accrued no wisdom in his life.”
.@TuckerCarlson ripped Bill Maher: “He’s one of the most unwise people in the media… I feel sorry for him. He’s almost 70 years old and has accrued no wisdom in his life” pic.twitter.com/kDVCbObYKc
— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) May 6, 2025
Carlson, who lost his father in March, implied the 69-year-old Maher has not come to terms with the fleeting nature of this life and the importance of eternity, which he said forms the basis of true wisdom.
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“Understanding just how little power you have, understanding that what really matters is what comes after this — those are the roots of wisdom. And I feel like [Maher] has none of that at all, so I don’t listen to a single word he says ever,” he said.
Whitlock argued that Maher’s defense of Western values, like free speech, contradicts his rejection of the Christian religion they came from. Maher has increasingly bemoaned the intolerance of the “woke” radical Left in recent years and criticized “progressives and academics” who deride Western civilization during a popular “Real Time” monologue in 2023.
“Maher is starting to figure out there is no free speech without Christianity,” he said, adding that ideas such as forgiveness, tolerance and the ability to “laugh at ourselves” come from the biblical idea that man is fallen.
“The godless leftists take themselves so seriously,” he added. “They think they’re God, and that’s why they get offended and criticized or mocked or made jokes about.”
Carlson went on to explain the futility of devoting one’s life to pursuing pleasure and expressed compassion toward those who suffer the spiritual emptiness of hedonism.
“You’ve got to feel sorry for people like that, though, in the end,” he said.
“It’s all fun, you’re rich, tons of hot 22-year-old girlfriends and everything. So fun! And then you get Parkinson’s, or you get old, you know what I mean? And there’s nobody there, and you don’t believe anything. There’s just a blankness ahead of you. And you’re terrified. You’re terrified.”
“Imagine being an atheist on your deathbed. … You don’t want to be that person, and we should feel compassion. I mean that, too. I’m not being patronizing; I’m being sincere,” Carlson added.
Maher, who in 2008 made a comedic documentary critical of religion called “Religulous,” has been open about his negative experiences with Roman Catholicism when he was young.
During an interview last month with TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk on his “Club Random” podcast, Maher recounted how his weekly childhood catechism class “just really turned me off.” He singled out the nuns for being especially off-putting in their strict attempts to corral approximately 60 children.
“Of course, they’re mean to begin with, and they scared you, and they yelled at you, and they hit you with a ruler on the knuckles,” he said. “I’m from that era.”
During a different interview last year with comedian and actor Martin Short on his podcast, the two were discussing terminal illness when Maher suggested that thoughts of death trouble him, especially when he wakes during the night.
“I’m not morbid in general, but when I get up in the middle of the night to pee, as we all do—,” Maher said before Short interrupted him to make a joke.
“I’m just saying, that’s when I think morbid thoughts,” Maher later added, finishing his thought. “I don’t know why it’s that moment of the day.”
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com
