A Bill Maher Writer Ponders the Bible
Scott Carson, a writer for HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," said he hopes his play, "The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord," will lead people to seek out God and the spiritual side of life, now, rather than later.
There were a lot of issues I put to the side … I thought, 'oh well, I'll deal with that when I'm older.' Or a lot of people find themselves asking questions when someone around them dies or has a terminal illness, or when they themselves are diagnosed with a terminal illness, or there's some extreme disappointment in life. And that's when they go to think about spiritual philosophy or religion, and I would like people to be compelled coming out of this play to think, 'Maybe I better be thinking about this now,'" Carson told The Christian Post.
