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[Bling]

I can highly recommend the movie Religulous. It has opinions from both sides of the story but it fundamentally shows the ridiculousness of religion and the beliefs people have. Both skeptics and believers will learn lots! Fascinating stuff.
Here's a trailer



The last 5 minutes of the film is worth a watch if you don't want to see the whole thing



You can buy the DVD but there's also loads of it, if not all, on Youtube.

[Darkwind]

I own it.  I really like Bill.

[Simbi Laveau]

He got death threats because of it .Great movie

[Darkwind]

I bet he did, which is why religions can't coexist. Religious people take it all much to serous.  They can't seem to agree to disagree.

[Ryu]

Oh yeah.  I seen this movie and really liked it, it clearly showed just how silly, ridiculous and childish all religions are.
I would watch it again if I had the chance.

[Abramelin]

Bling Zombie, on 28 August 2012 - 09:55 PM, said:

I can highly recommend the movie Religulous. It has opinions from both sides of the story but it fundamentally shows the ridiculousness of religion and the beliefs people have. Both skeptics and believers will learn lots! Fascinating stuff.
Here's a trailer



The last 5 minutes of the film is worth a watch if you don't want to see the whole thing



You can buy the DVD but there's also loads of it, if not all, on Youtube.

Haven't seen it but I will try to find all the parts of it on YouTube.

Btw, what does that guy in the first video say at 1:06 ?? I repeated those few seconds like 20 times, but I still have no idea what he says. This is what I 'heard', lol: "Isn't that something "callnemocoshomomatata"?" Or was that just a brainfart??

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Edited by Abramelin, 29 August 2012 - 06:42 AM.

[BaalZebul Nehebkau]

lol I remember when I mentioned this to my father. He said that it was ridiculous and that Bill would end up in hell because of his ignorance of God. . .

*snicker*
Christians,

[notoverrated]

i dont understand why people care so much. now i think gov and religion should be separate (since i dont believe in god) but i think a lot of people need to and it helps them. idc what you want to think or wat you want to believe as long as it doesn't hurt anyone you can be racist, religious, anti gay, vegan >.> , atheist , agnostic, or just plain crazy. and to say something like grow up or die religion is killing us is just crap. greed is killing us, addiction is killing us, hate is killing us. but the sick people in charge use people faith to control them the evil greed b******* that only care about them selves is what need to go. but we do need to grow up and stop being so separated, i find it silly to say im christian or im atheist because you like an idea better then another one to me its just like separating your self by what color you like "oh you like blue?! wtf is wrong with you that is crazy and it makes no sense, everyone knows red is better" jut plain silly.

[karmakazi]

I'm with notoverrated.... live and let live.  That goes for both sides.

[redhen]

Ho hum, Bill Maher mocking Fundies, yawn... Bill thinks all Christians are literalists. He doesn't know what to make out of a vatican astronomer, he thinks it's an oxymoron.



Looking for this clip I stumbled on why maybe Bill gives a pass to Catholicsm and Jewish fundies;

""So Maher is half Jew and half Catholic.  The best people in the film are Catholics and Jews.  The worst: Protestants and Muslims."" http://mondoweiss.ne...-for-jihad.html

hmm..

[CommunitarianKevin]

I love Bill but this movie is very biased and one-sided. Like someone else suggested, he is talking to Fundies. He also plays the roll of superior intelect but makes goofs himself that any Religious Studies majors would pick up on (for example when he says "Literacy?" when the congressmen says "religious literacy." Religious Literacy is a book by Religion scholar Stephen Prothero and a commonly used term in the study of religion.) I like the movie and would recomend it, but keep in mind, it does have its issues.

[Imaginarynumber1]

I love this movie. It's absolutely hilarious.
As mentioned by some, the film does focus on the fundamentalists more, but these are also the people that are gaining the most political power and influencing US policies and laws. These people need to be shown for how utterly bats!t insane they are.

[Odin11]

Abramelin, on 29 August 2012 - 06:36 AM, said:

Haven't seen it but I will try to find all the parts of it on YouTube.

Btw, what does that guy in the first video say at 1:06 ?? I repeated those few seconds like 20 times, but I still have no idea what he says. This is what I 'heard', lol: "Isn't that something "callnemocoshomomatata"?" Or was that just a brainfart??

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The guy at 1:06 is speaking in tongues.

Edited by Odin11, 30 August 2012 - 07:31 PM.

[and then]

I haven't watched all of it.  For someone who has: How does he treat Islam?  He hit's Christian fundies pretty hard in the parts I saw.  just wondering if he had the guts to lash out at someone who might lash back?

[Bling]

and then, on 30 August 2012 - 08:14 PM, said:

I haven't watched all of it.  For someone who has: How does he treat Islam?  He hit's Christian fundies pretty hard in the parts I saw.  just wondering if he had the guts to lash out at someone who might lash back?

He covers Islam too