Thread: Thank-you Bill Maher

the speaker sounds like kennith hagin!

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I saw Religulous today. Amazing movie in my opinion. It was a quest of sorts for Bill Maher. I'm not going to say it wasn't slanted towards putting down religion, because of course Maher will have his own opinions (which he does make clear). I do think though that he needed no help putting this "slant" on religion in the film because the hypocritical nature of ALL religions explored did it themselves. He mainly explores christianity, islam, judaism, and scientology and well as some small unknowns. His thought process in coming to his own realizations seemed very familiar to me.

It is a comedy. It is offensive (to some). It is thought provoking. It is well done. It is sensible. I will buy it when it is released. He makes very interesting points (as do others in the film sometimes) that deserve watching. He is obviously studied in many religions and their beliefs/practices.

Bottom line: I was thinking originally I would post saying if you are easily offended, then don't watch this film. Now though, I think that those are the people who NEED to see this most. Towards the end of the movie it does come to a point. I won't say what it comes down to, but I will say that Maher's ending monologue has a very important, almost political (non-slanted) message. It was amazing.

Thank you for reviewing the movie Sir!

Hopefully Bill Maher will also do surprise interviews of quack doctors and then conclude that modern medicine and hospitals are a waste of time.

Wait a second. Bill Maher's conclusion is "Religion must die if the world is to survive"


Where'd that come from?

There's the old rant about "so many wars have been fought about religion..."


Can somebody please name a few of these, that actually were about/because of religious belief, and not actually due to regular political/socio-economic agendas?


Let's take a look at some secular, Godless, human ideology examples of mass violence:

Mao Tze Tung and his cultural revolution: ~500,000 killed

Stalin and his great purge: ~2 million killed

Abortion: 1.3 million lives lost annually, 46 million since Roe vs. Wade and that's just in the U.S.


You tell me who is more dangerous- a person who believes in God, and at least tries to live acording to those tenents, or someone who doesn't?

Originally Posted by Seraphim

Abortion: 1.3 million lives lost annually, 46 million since Roe vs. Wade and that's just in the U.S.

Yeah, it's a damn good thing too.

By the way, did you SEE the movie? If not, I suggest you do so to help us all.

P.S.- Have you heard of Northern Ireland? Maybe you saw when a couple planes crashed into the WTC? I'm not even thinking about religious conflicts and they just keep popping into my head. Go tell 6 million Jews that religion had nothing to do with the holocaust.

Originally Posted by Philadelph

Yeah, it's a damn good thing too.

By the way, did you SEE the movie? If not, I suggest you do so to help us all.

What I'm getting at is that it's one thing to say that some religious believers are a bit kooky,poke some fun at them. It's quite another to draw the conclusion that they are therefore a major threat to humankind.

Have you actually READ the Bible?

Originally Posted by Seraphim

Have you actually READ the Bible?

Yes sir, cover to cover. I used to be a practicing Catholic with a lot of blind faith. Thank science I stopped that a while ago!